Self-channeling of Terawatt-power CO2 laser Pulses in Air

Sergei Tochitsky; Eric Welch; Misha Polyanskiy; Igor Pogorelsky; Paris Panagiotopoulos; Jerome Moloney; Chan Joshi

Self-channeling of Terawatt-power CO₂ laser Pulses in Air

Sergei Tochitsky, Eric Welch, Misha Polyanskiy, Igor Pogorelsky, Paris Panagiotopoulos, Jerome Moloney, Chan Joshi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

We report the first observation of Kerr self-focusing of 3 ps TW CO₂ laser pulses in atmosphere. A centimeter diameter, 30m long, 10-μm light channel containing a few Joules of energy is generated and characterized.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)	9781943580422
State	Published - Aug 6 2018
Event	2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - San Jose, United States Duration: May 13 2018 → May 18 2018

Publication series

Name	2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings

Other

Other	2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	5/13/18 → 5/18/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Cite this

Tochitsky, S., Welch, E., Polyanskiy, M., Pogorelsky, I., Panagiotopoulos, P., Moloney, J., & Joshi, C. (2018). Self-channeling of Terawatt-power CO₂ laser Pulses in Air. In 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings Article 8426599 (2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

Self-channeling of Terawatt-power CO₂ laser Pulses in Air. / Tochitsky, Sergei; Welch, Eric; Polyanskiy, Misha et al.
2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. 8426599 (2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Tochitsky, S, Welch, E, Polyanskiy, M, Pogorelsky, I, Panagiotopoulos, P, Moloney, J & Joshi, C 2018, Self-channeling of Terawatt-power CO₂ laser Pulses in Air. in 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings., 8426599, 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018, San Jose, United States, 5/13/18.

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