Powerful femtosecond laser pulses can self-focus in any optical medium leaving behind traces of plasma columns called filaments, mm in length in condensed matters and km in the atmosphere.
Self-focusing and filamentation of ultrafast laser pulses in optical media: physics and applications
2003-01-01
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Conference paper
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