TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chin,See Leang
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Femtosecond Laser Filamentation
T2  - Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics,
SN  - 9781441906885
AV  - QC173.96-174.52 
U1  - 535.15 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - Physics
KW  - Optics
KW  - Electrodynamics
KW  - Quantum optics
KW  - Lasers
KW  - Photonics
KW  - Optoelectronics
KW  - Plasmons (Physics)
KW  - Microwaves
KW  - Optical engineering
KW  - Quantum Optics
KW  - Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering
KW  - Optics and Electrodynamics
KW  - Laser Technology, Photonics
KW  - Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
N1  - Filamentation Physics -- Theory of Single Filamentation -- Multiple Filamentation -- Filamentation Nonlinear Optics: General -- Filamentation Nonlinear Optics: Third Harmonic Generation and Four-Wave-Mixing Inside a Filament -- Remote Sensing Using Filamentation -- Challenges Ahead
N2  - Femtosecond Laser Filamentation gives a comprehensive review of the physics of propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical media (principally air) and the applications and challenges of this new technique. This book presents the modern understanding of the physics of femtosecond laser pulse propagation, including unusual new effects such as the self-transformation of the pulse into a white light laser pulse, intensity clamping, the physics of multiple filamentation and competition, and how filaments’ ability to melt glass leads to wave guide writing. The potential applications of laser filamentation in atmospheric sensing and the generation of other electromagnetic pulses from the UV to the radio frequency are treated, together with possible future challenges in the excitation of super-excited states of molecules. Exciting new phenomena such as filament induced ultrafast birefringence and the excitation of molecular rotational wave packets and their multiple revivals in air (gases) will also be discussed. This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of these topics currently available. It will be of great interest to scientists and researchers using intense femtosecond laser pulses as well as to graduate students and researchers who wish to learn more about the field
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0688-5
ER  -