Long lifetime plasma channel in air generated by multiple femtosecond laser pulses and an external electrical field

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4915-4922

  Zhu, Jiabin ^a   Ji, Zhonggang ^a   Deng, Yunpei ^a   Liu, Jiansheng ^a   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER PULSES;

EXTERNAL ELECTRICAL FIELDS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; PLASMA CHANNELS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 33744545038     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004915     Document Type: Article

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