• DocumentCode
    1771907
  • Title

    Direct interferometric measurements of the acoustic waves from femtosecond filaments

  • Author

    Wahlstrand, J.K. ; Jhajj, N. ; Rosenthal, E.W. ; Zahedpour, S. ; Milchberg, H.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Res. in Electron. & Appl. Phys., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Interferometric measurements of submicrosecond gas density dynamics following passage of an intense ultrashort pulse are presented for single- and multi-lobed beams at 10 Hz and 1 kHz. Results are in excellent agreement with hydrodynamic simulations.
  • Keywords
    hydrodynamics; laser beams; light interferometry; plasma density; plasma diagnostics; plasma ion acoustic waves; plasma light propagation; plasma simulation; acoustic waves; direct interferometric measurements; femtosecond filaments; frequency 1 kHz; frequency 10 Hz; hydrodynamic simulations; intense ultrashort pulse; multi-lobed beams; single-lobed beams; submicrosecond gas density dynamics; Acoustic beams; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic waves; Density measurement; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Refractive index;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989670