Optical Filament Formation in Nitrobenzene Resulting from Laser Intensity Inhomogeneities
- 15 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 19 (10) , 415-417
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653753
Abstract
An experiment was performed in nitrobenzene with a multimode ruby laser to study filament formation as a function of beam aperture size. A theory which assumes that optimum‐size intensity spikes of the incident‐laser‐beam self‐focus first can explain the experimental results with one adjustable parameter.Keywords
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