Femtosecond Laser Filamentation
Femtosecond Laser Filamentation gives a comprehensive review of the physics of propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical media (principally air) and the applications and challenges of this new technique. This book presents the modern unde
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Femtosecond Laser Filamentation With 58 Figures
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See Leang Chin Center for Optics, Photonics & Laser and Dept. of Physics, Eng. Phys. & Optics Université Laval Pavillon d’Optique-Photonique QUÉBEC QC G1V 0A6 CANADA
ISSN 1615-5653 ISBN 978-1-4419-0687-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0688-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0688-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938638 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Preface
This book attempts to give a discussion of the physics and current and potential applications of the self-focusing of an intense femtosecond laser pulse in a transparent medium. Although self-focusing is an old subject of nonlinear optics, the consequence of self-focusing of intense femtosecond laser pulses is totally new and unexpected. Thus, new phenomena are observed, such as long range filamentation, intensity clamping, white light laser pulse, self-spatial filtering, self-group phase locking, self-pulse compression, clean nonlinear fluorescence, and so on. Long range propagation a
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