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Increase in CO2 laser energy transmission through the atmosphere using a precursor pulse

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Abstract

The propagation of pulsed high-power laser beams through the atmosphere is generally limited by different linear or nonlinear phenomena such as aerosol and molecular absorption and scattering, atmospheric turbulence, thermal blooming, and optical breakdown. This phenomenon of breakdown due to the presence of small-size particles suspended in the path of the beam plays a preponderant role for relatively short and high-power pulses.1–2

© 1986 Optical Society of America

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