Vol. 32, issue 09, article # 5

Abstract:

This paper presents the results of studies to control the characteristics of the region multiple filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses on the atmospheric path using variables of initial spatial focus, beam radius and pulse energy, as well as the structure of the light field at the initial beam aperture.

Keywords:

laser radiation, femtosecond pulse, self-focusing, filamentation, postfilamentation light channel, bimorphic deformable mirror

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