• DocumentCode
    2652972
  • Title

    Efficient Generation of Low-density Plasma Waveguides in Clustered Gases

  • Author

    Kumarappan, V. ; Sheng, H. ; Layer, B.D. ; Kim, K.Y. ; Milchberg, H.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Phys. Sci. & Technol., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    27-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1476
  • Lastpage
    1478
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate waveguide generation for intense pulse guiding using end and side-pumped schemes. Up to 3times1017 Wcm-2 pulses are guided in ~8 mm long argon plasma waveguides with little further ionization by the guided pulse
  • Keywords
    argon; high-speed optical techniques; optical self-focusing; plasma density; plasma filled waveguides; plasma light propagation; plasma nonlinear processes; Ar; argon; clustered gas; intense pulse guiding; plasma waveguide generation; side-pumped scheme; Gas lasers; Gases; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Plasma accelerators; Plasma waves; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-796-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2005.1549178
  • Filename
    1549178