• DocumentCode
    733109
  • Title

    Spatial and spectral ellipsometry of light filaments

  • Author

    Arissian, Ladan ; Rostami, Shermineh ; Diels, Jean-Claude

  • Author_Institution
    Center for High Tech Mater., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Measuring the continuum polarization against pulse ellipticity of a laser filament is introduced as a new paradigm for quantifying nonlinearities in filamentation such as ionization paths, molecular alignment, nonlinear index and field intensity.
  • Keywords
    ellipsometry; ionisation; laser beams; light polarisation; nonlinear optics; optical pulse generation; continuum polarization; field intensity; filamentation; ionization paths; laser filament; light filaments; molecular alignment; nonlinear index; pulse ellipticity; spatial ellipsometry; spectral ellipsometry; Focusing; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Particle beams; Polarization; Pulse measurements; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183546