Enhanced laser-induced plasma channels in air

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/3/035203

Abstract Plasma is a significant medium in high-energy density physics since it can hardly be damaged. For some applications such as plasma based backward Raman amplification (BRA), uniform high-density and large-scale plasma channels are required. In the previous experiment, the plasma transverse diameter and density are 50-200 μm and 1-2×10¹⁹ cm^-3, here we enhance them to 0.8 mm and 8×10¹⁹ cm^-3, respectively. Moreover, the gradient plasma is investigated in our experiment. A proper plasma gradient can be obtained with suitable pulse energy and delay. The experimental results are useful for plasma physics and nonlinear optics.

Keywords: plasma channel laser-induced plasma plasma measurement plasma optics

Received: 19 October 2015
Revised: 09 November 2015
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PACS:	52.50.Dg	(Plasma sources)
	52.50.Jm	(Plasma production and heating by laser beams (laser-foil, laser-cluster, etc.))
	52.38.Fz	(Laser-induced magnetic fields in plasmas)
	52.70.Kz	(Optical (ultraviolet, visible, infrared) measurements)

Fund: Project supported by the Development Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant Nos. 2012A0401019 and 2013A0401019).

Corresponding Authors: Zhaohui Wu
E-mail: wuzhaohui20050@163.com

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Yanlei Zuo(左言磊), Xiaofeng Wei(魏晓峰), Kainan Zhou(周凯南), Xiaoming Zeng(曾小明),Jingqin Su(粟敬钦), Zhihong Jiao(焦志宏), Na Xie(谢娜), Zhaohui Wu(吴朝辉) Enhanced laser-induced plasma channels in air 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 035203

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