• DocumentCode
    1689372
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • 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
    6327015