Fundamentals of Filament Interaction

Abstract

This report summarizes the progress made over the five year AFOSR/JTO program on Fundamentals of Filament Interaction.This program for the first three years kept fairly strictly to the research plan outlined in the original proposal. To our knowledge this was the first time the HEL JTO had used an MRI to advance the understanding of optical filamentation in air by ultra short laser pulses. Studies of filamentation involvemany aspects and disciplines, and at that time our laboratory, the Laser Plasma Laboratory (LPL) was studying many of them.Schematically, these are shown in the figure adjacent. The focus of this MRI was very specific. Based in on our other studies we focused this MRI program in two very important areas filament interaction with gases, and filament interaction with solids.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 19, 2017
Accession Number
AD1036348

Entities

People

  • M. Baudelet
  • Martin Richardson
  • Tamar Seiderman

Organizations

  • University of Central Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Chemistry
  • Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Electromagnetic Pulses
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Femtosecond Lasers
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Pulses
  • Laser Science
  • Lasers
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Optical Materials
  • Optics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Medical Imaging.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy