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Mid IR single-cycle light bullet self-reconstruction after an air gap under single-pulse femtosecond filamentation in LiF

The results of investigation of extremely compressed wave packet-light bullet (LB) penetration through an air gap under single-pulse femtosecond Mid IR filamentation in LiF are presented. It is revealed by the laser coloration method and from numerical simulations that a single-cycle LB, which was formed before an air gap up to 0.5 mm width, completely recovered after passing some distance in LiF after the gap. This distance increases nonlinearly with the gap width and LB pathway before the gap. LB in the air gap has a strongly convergent wave front with focusing radius of 20-100 μm and its divergence after the waist is considerably less than that of Gaussian beam.