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Control of Multiple Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air

Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics volume 33, pages 42–50 (2020)Cite this article

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The results are presented of experiments on controlling the characteristics of the multiple filamentation domain of femtosecond laser pulses along atmospheric paths via variations in the initial spatial focusing, beam radius, and pulse energy, as well as the optical field structure at the initial beam aperture.

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Apeksimov, D.V., Geints, Y.E., Zemlyanov, A.A. et al. Control of Multiple Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air. Atmos Ocean Opt 33, 42–50 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856020010030

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Keywords:

  • laser radiation
  • femtosecond pulse
  • self-focusing
  • filamentation
  • postfilamentation light channel
  • bimorph deformable mirror