Sonographic probing of laser filaments in air

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7117-7120

  Yu, Jin ^a   Mondelain, Didier ^a   Kasparian, Jérôme ^a   Salmon, Estelle ^a   Geffroy, Sylvain ^a   Favre, Catherine ^a   Boutou, Veronique ^a   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; AMPLIFICATION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GAS HEATING; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MICROPHONES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOIONIZATION; SHOCK WAVES;

LASER LIGHTNING CONTROL; SHIELDING TUBES; SONOGRAPHIC DETECTION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0346937502     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007117     Document Type: Article

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