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Kilometer-range nonlinear propagation of femtosecond laser pulses

Miguel Rodriguez1, Riad Bourayou1,2, Guillaume Méjean3, Jérôme Kasparian3,*, Jin Yu3, Estelle Salmon3, Alexander Scholz4, Bringfried Stecklum4, Jochen Eislöffel4 et al.

Uwe Laux4, Artie P. Hatzes4, Roland Sauerbrey2, Ludger Wöste1, and Jean-Pierre Wolf3

  • 1Teramobile, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Teramobile, Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
  • 3Teramobile, LASIM, UMR CNRS 5579, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
  • 4Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS), Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium, Sternwarte 5, D-07778 Tautenburg, Germany

  • *Email address: jkaspari@lasim.univ-lyno1.fr
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Phys. Rev. E 69, 036607 – Published 30 March, 2004

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.036607

Abstract

Ultrashort, high-power laser pulses propagating vertically in the atmosphere have been observed over more than 20 km using an imaging 2-m astronomical telescope. This direct observation in several wavelength bands shows indications for filament formation at distances as far as 2 km in the atmosphere. Moreover, the beam divergence at 5 km altitude is smaller than expected, bearing evidence for whole-beam parallelization about the nonlinear focus. We discuss implications for white-light Lidar applications.

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Phys. Rev. E 69, 036607– Published 30 March, 2004
  • Received 30 September 2003

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