PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FOR SELF-FOCUSING IN GAS BREAKDOWN PRODUCED BY PICOSECOND LASER PULSES
- 1 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 14 (5) , 145-146
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652750
Abstract
An investigation of the sparks produced by picosecond pulses from mode‐locked Nd:glass and ruby lasers indicates the existence of breakdown regions of diameter less than 5 μ. These results support the hypothesis that self‐focusing of the beam may be involved in the breakdown process.Keywords
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