• DocumentCode
    2792800
  • Title

    Direct measurement of intense field ionization rates in sapphire and water during short pulse laser propagation

  • Author

    Modoran, Georgia C. ; Schumacher, Douglass

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, 43210, USA
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe a pump-probe experiment that directly measures electron ionization rates via plasma-induced blue-shifting during filamentation of a short laser pulse. We compare to Keldysh and Thornber theory.
  • Keywords
    Delay; Free electron lasers; Ionization; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Plasma measurements; Probes; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431665
  • Filename
    4431665