Measurements of intense femtosecond laser pulse propagation in air

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Ting, A ^a   Alexeev, I ^a   Gordon, D ^a   Fischer, R ^a   Kaganovich, D ^a,b   Jones, T ^a   Briscoe, E ^a,c   Penano J ^a   Hubbard, R ^a   Sprangle, P ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LET Corporation   (United States)

^c RSI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE PROPAGATION; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; PICOSECOND PULSES;

AIR; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; IONIZATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 20844445127     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1871197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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