High current permanent discharges in air induced by femtosecond laser filamentation

Aurélien Houard, Ciro D’Amico, Yi Liu, Y.-B. André, M. Franco, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, Estelle Salmon, P. Pierlot, Louis-Marie Cléon

Applied Physics Letters · 2007 · 45 citations · 8 references

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Filaments created in air by an intense femtosecond laser pulse in the presence of an electric field generate a highly conductive permanent plasma column.

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