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Femtosecond Laser Filaments for Use in Sub-Diffraction-Limited Imaging and Remote Sensing
Published on: April 25, 2019
Trapping and destruction of long-range high-intensity optical filaments by molecular quantum wakes in air
S Varma1, Y-H Chen, H M Milchberg
1Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|December 31, 2008
Abstract:
We report the first observation of the strong effect of quantum rotational wave packets in atmospheric air on the long-range filamentary propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses. In a pump-probe experiment, we find that the probe filament can be sucked into the pump filament's molecular quantum wake and trapped or be destroyed by it.
