Generation of long plasma channels in air by focusing ultrashort laser pulses with an axicon

Optics Communications

Volumn 282, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-134

  Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Zhou, Bing ^a   Franco, Michel ^a   Couairon, Arnaud ^b   Mysyrowicz, Andre ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BESSEL-LIKE BEAMS; CONVENTIONAL LENS; GUIDED PROPAGATION; INPUT PULSE; INPUT PULSE ENERGY; ON-AXIS; PLASMA CHANNEL; ULTRASHORT-PULSED LASER;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 56049127683     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.09.048     Document Type: Article

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