• DocumentCode
    1679743
  • Title

    Highly localized plasma formation in air using space-time cusing of mJ ultrafast pulses

  • Author

    Greco, Michael ; Meier, Amanda ; Block, Erica ; Iliev, Marin ; Vitek, Dawn ; Squier, Jeff ; Durfee, Charles

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Colorado Sch. of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical focusing; plasma production by laser; solid lasers; filamentation suppression; highly localized air plasma formation; mJ ultrafast pulses; spatially chirped laser pulses; titanium doped sapphire laser pulses; ultrafast pulse space-time focusing; Chirp; Electric breakdown; Focusing; Gratings; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Plasmas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326644
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1679743