Evolution and termination of a femtosecond laser filament in air.

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Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) and Département de physique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada.

Published: December 2007


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The evolution of the filamentation of a femtosecond laser pulse in air is measured. The divergence of the filament core is almost constant over a long distance, encompassing a zone with efficient ionization followed by another where ionization is much weaker. At the end, the core diverges out linearly with a low divergence due to self-spatial filtering.

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