Range of plasma filaments created in air by a multi-terawatt femtosecond laser

Grégoire Méchain; Ciro d'Amico; Yves-Bernard André; Stellios Tzortzakis; Michel Franco; Bernard Prade; André Mysyrowicz; Arnaud Couairon; Estelle Salmon; Roland Sauerbrey

Range of plasma filaments created in air by a multi-terawatt femtosecond laser

Grégoire Méchain ¹ Ciro d'Amico ¹ Yves-Bernard André ¹ Stellios Tzortzakis ¹ Michel Franco ¹ Bernard Prade ¹ André Mysyrowicz ¹ Arnaud Couairon ² Estelle Salmon ³ Roland Sauerbrey ⁴

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée

2 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]

3 LASIM - Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire

4 IOQ - Institut fur Optik und Quantenelectronik

Abstract : The propagation of a multi-terawatt femtosecond laser pulse in air is studied as a function of initial chirp. The chirp conditions for optimising air ionisation at long distance are presented. Ionisation channels are observed over a distance reaching 400 m.

Keywords : filamentation nonlinear optics

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Journal articles

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Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Optics [physics.optics]

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