Revival of femtosecond laser plasma filaments in air by a nanosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11450-11456

  Zhou, Bing ^a   Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Prade, Bernard ^a   André, Yves Bernard ^a   Houard, Aurélien ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Franco, Michel ^a   D'Amico, Ciro ^a   Salmon, Estelle ^b   Hao, Zuo Qiang ^b   Lascoux, Noelle ^b   Mysyrowicz, André ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

(190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (350.5400) Plasmas

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

AVALANCHE PROCESS; BOUND ELECTRONS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PLASMA; NANOSECOND DURATION; NANOSECOND LASERS; NANOSECOND PULSE; OXYGEN MOLECULE; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OXYGEN;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; OPTICS; TIME;

AIR; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650535865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011450     Document Type: Article

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