Direct measurements of the dynamics of self-guided femtosecond laser filaments in air

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 249-253

  Gordon, Daniel F ^a   Ting, Antonio C ^a   Alexeev, Ilya ^a,b   Fischer, Richard P ^a   Sprangle, Phillip ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AT and A Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Air propagation; Filamentation; Laser plasma interaction; Ultrashort pulses

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASMA WAVES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AIR PROPAGATION; FILAMENTATION; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION;

PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 33646065292     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.872179     Document Type: Article

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