In-line holography for the characterization of ultrafast laser filamentation in transparent media Academic Article

abstract

• A powerful experimental method, based on holographic microscopy, is used to retrieve the spatiotemporal distribution of small (< 10-3) refractive index perturbations induced by ultrafast laser pulses in transparent media. A numerical iterative wavefront propagation approach is used to accurately reconstruct both the phase and the amplitude of the perturbed probe beam wavefront, while Abel inversion recovers the exact three dimensional distribution of the perturbation. For demonstration, a laser filament induced plasma string in air is fully characterized. 2008 American Institute of Physics.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Papazoglou, D. G., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

• 56

complete list of authors

• Papazoglou, DG||Tzortzakis, S

publication date

• July 2008

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Applied Physics Letters  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.2968190

start page

• 041120

end page

• 041120

volume

• 93

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968190