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Femtosecond Laser Filaments for Use in Sub-Diffraction-Limited Imaging and Remote Sensing
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Guing of intense femtosecond pulses in preformed plasma channels
Optics Letters
|January 12, 2008
Abstract:
We report guiding of sub-100-fs pulses at intensities up to 5x10(15) W/cm (2) over a distance of 1 cm in a preformed plasma channel. The width of the guided pulse was shortened, which we attribute to ionization-induced refraction at the channel entrance. A pulse energy throughput of 30% in the lowest-order was measured.
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