A plasma microlens for ultrashort high power lasers

Yiftach Katzir; Shmuel Eisenmann; Yair Ferber; Arie Zigler; Richard F. Hubbard

doi:10.1063/1.3184788

A plasma microlens for ultrashort high power lasers

Yiftach Katzir^*, Shmuel Eisenmann, Yair Ferber, Arie Zigler, Richard F. Hubbard

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Racah Institute of Physics

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We present a technique for generation of miniature plasma lens system that can be used for focusing and collimating a high intensity femtosecond laser pulse. The plasma lens was created by a nanosecond laser, which ablated a capillary entrance. The spatial configuration of the ablated plasma focused a high intensity femtosecond laser pulse. This configuration offers versatility in the plasma lens small f -number for extremely tight focusing of high power lasers with no damage threshold restrictions of regular optical components.

Original language	English
Article number	031101
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	95
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3184788
State	Published - 2009

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