Interaction of femtosecond filaments in sapphire

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7993, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Blonskyi, Ivan ^a   Kadan, Viktor ^a   Shpotyuk, Oleh ^b,c   Korenyuk, Petro ^a   Pavlov, Ihor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMPANY CARAT   (Ukraine)

^c JAN DLUGOSZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser pulses; Filaments; Kerr effect; Sapphire, Self focusing, Axial emission

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL POWER; CROSSING ANGLES; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FAR-FIELD IMAGE; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FILAMENTS; KERR EFFECT; MULTIFILAMENT PATTERNS; OVERLAPPING AREA; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PROPAGATION AXIS; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP BEAMS; SELF-FOCUSING; SINGLE FILAMENTS; TWO BEAMS; TWO-PUMP;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOCUSING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SAPPHIRE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 79951590353     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.881013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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