Abstract
According to traditional theories, the filamentation1 of a laser beam as it passes through a nonlinear material is a consequence of the spatial growth2,3 of weak wave-front perturbations initially present on the beam. To a certain extent these perturbations can be removed by passing the beam through a spatial filter before it enters the medium. However, quantum fluctuations in the field amplitudes of the transverse side modes impose perturbations that cannot be removed by spatial filtering.
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