Control of filamentation for enhancing remote detection with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6219, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fisher, Matthew ^a   Siders, Craig ^b   Johnson, Eric ^a   Andrusyak, Oleksiy ^a   Brown, Christopher ^a   Richardson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirped Pulse Amplification; Filamentation; Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy; Vortex Phase Elements

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; FILAMENTATION; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; VORTEX PHASE ELEMENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33747346658     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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