• DocumentCode
    689964
  • Title

    Spatio-temporal phase-contrast imaging of tenuous laser plasma structures

  • Author

    Zhengyan Li ; Yen-Yu Chang ; Downer, M.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a pump-probe phase-contrast method that reconstructs the spatio-temporal profile of plasma structures at density as low as 1016 cm-3. The method is compatible with very thin, very long, even turbulent media.
  • Keywords
    laser materials processing; optical images; optical pumping; plasma density; plasma production by laser; spatiotemporal phenomena; plasma density; pump-probe phase-contrast method; spatiotemporal phase-contrast imaging; tenuous laser plasma structures; turbulent media; Frequency-domain analysis; Imaging; Laser excitation; Measurement by laser beam; Plasmas; Probes; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834354