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Highly Localized Plasma Formation in Air Using Space-time Focusing of mJ Ultrafast Pulses

Authors :
Jeff Squier
Marin Iliev
Michael Greco
Dawn Vitek
Erica Block
Amanda Meier
Charles G. Durfee
Source :
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2012.
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
OSA, 2012.

Abstract

Space-time focusing of spatially-chirped Ti:Sapphire laser pulses is used to generate a plasma in air axially localized to 28× less than the confocal parameter, suppressing filamentation on the way to the focus.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2012
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........ce815f99c2d24c3525a60242694b0b5b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo_at.2012.jw4a.20