Spatio-temporal control of femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in the atmosphere

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6733, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shlenov, Svyatoslav A ^a   Kandidov, Valerii P ^a   Kosareva, Olga G ^a   Bezborodov, Alexei E ^a   Fedorov, Vladimir Yu ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chirped pulses; Femtosecond filaments; Filamentation control; Turbulent atmosphere

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TURBULENCE;

CHIRPED PULSES; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTS; FILAMENTATION CONTROL; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36248961039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.753173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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