Generation of extended plasma channels in air using femtosecond Bessel beams

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15733-15740

  Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Kolesik, Miroslav ^a,b   Roberts, Adam ^a   Faccio, Daniele ^c,d   Trapani, Paolo Di ^c,d,e   Moloney, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta   (Italy)

^e VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PLASMA DENSITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FILAMENT FORMATION; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; LIGHTNING CONTROL; LINEAR PLASMA DENSITY; MULTIPLE FILAMENT; PLASMA CHANNEL; PULSE ENERGIES; REMOTE SPECTROSCOPY;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME;

ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54749151438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015733     Document Type: Article

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