Title :
Optical breakdown triggered by ultraviolet plasma grating in air
Author :
Shi, Liping ; Li, Wenxue ; Zhou, Hui ; Lu, Xin ; Ding, Liang´en ; Zeng, Heping
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Precision Spectrosc., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrated the generation of a plasma grating induced by interaction of two ultraviolet filaments. The optical breakdown of air is observed when intense infrared pulses were tightly focused onto the plasma grating.
Keywords :
air; diffraction gratings; electric breakdown; plasma light propagation; air; intense infrared pulses; laser pulse duration; optical breakdown; ultraviolet filaments; ultraviolet plasma grating; Electric breakdown; Fluorescence; Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Plasmas; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
