Light Pulse Fired from a 10 TW Laser, Dispersing into Water Vapor (IMAGE)

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Light Pulse Fired from a 10 TW Laser, Dispersing into Water Vapor

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A light pulse fired from a 10 TW laser, dispersing into water vapor. The blue glow is laser light. The source of the other colors is mainly plasma fiber (filament) arising as a result of ionized matter, located in the air in the path of the light pulse. The laser with parametric amplifier NOPCPA was designed and constructed at the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.

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