Initial phase of laser–induced air optical breakdown: A new picture

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1099-1103

  Minowa, Tatsuya ^a   Kawata, Tadashi ^a   Katsuragawa, Hidetsugu ^a   Uematsu, Haruko K ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; FOCUSING; LASER OPTICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; LASER INDUCED AIR OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; MIE SCATTERING THEORY; PHYSICAL CONSTANTS; PLASMA BALLS; WAVE OPTICS; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER RADIATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0031996828     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001099     Document Type: Article

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