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  • 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
  • paper EE_P_1

Picosecond laser filamentation in air

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Abstract

Laser-generated plasmas in air have potential utility in diverse application areas ranging from the guidance of electrical discharges to remote sensing. Ionization of air and other gases by powerful laser pulses has been intensely investigated in the femtosecond [1,2] and nanosecond [3] regimes. However, plasma channels produced through fs excitation are dilute and short-lived, while plasmas generated through nanosecond optical breakdown are typically fragmented into disconnected plasma bubbles. Both shortcomings severely limit practical applications. Attempts to combine femtosecond and nanosecond laser excitations in the so-called igniter-heater scheme [4] do result in the production of extended and dense plasma channels, but, like in the case of pure nanosecond excitation, the generated plasma channels are fragmented into discrete bubbles.

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