Pulse repetition rate effect on the plasma inside femtosecond laser filament in air

Fukang Yin; Tie-Jun Wang; Yaoxiang Liu; Juan Long; Yingxia Wei; Bin Zhu; Kainan Zhou; Yuxin Leng

doi:10.3788/COL202422.013201

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 1, 013201(2024)

Pulse repetition rate effect on the plasma inside femtosecond laser filament in air

Fukang Yin^1,2, Tie-Jun Wang^1,2、*, Yaoxiang Liu¹, Juan Long^1,2, Yingxia Wei¹, Bin Zhu³, Kainan Zhou³, and Yuxin Leng^1,2

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Laser Fusion Research Center and Science & Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621999, China

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics and Attosecond/High-field Physics

Received: Jul. 21, 2023

Accepted: Aug. 18, 2023

Posted: Aug. 21, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 9, 2024

The Author Email: Tie-Jun Wang (tiejunwang@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.013201

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