Title :
Do circularly polarized filaments exist?
Author :
Yeak, J. ; Rostami, S. ; Feng, C. ; Xu, X. ; Diels, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Filaments prepared by launching a focused beam (< 200µm) from vacuum to air exist only in linear polarization, in contrast to observations reporting filaments produced from a circularly polarized beam let to self-focus in air.
Keywords :
Aerodynamics; Conductivity measurement; Electrodes; Fluorescence; Lenses; Nitrogen; Plasma measurements; Polarization; Pulse measurements; Vacuum breakdown;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
