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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Fukang Yin, Tie-Jun Wang, Yaoxiang Liu, Juan Long, Yingxia Wei, Bin Zhu, Kainan Zhou, Yuxin Leng, "Pulse repetition rate effect on the plasma inside femtosecond laser filament in air," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 013201 (2024)

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