Extreme Optics: Laser Filamentation or how to Control Lightning with Light | Department of Mathematics

Extreme Optics: Laser Filamentation or how to Control Lightning with Light

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461 (Refreshments at 3:30 in 472)
Event Date: 
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 4:00pm

Light Filamentation is a diffractionless propagation of high intensity ultra-short laser pulses in atmosphere. Despite two decades of experimental and theoretical research the control of filament propagation remains the main challenge in the field. In this talk, I will describe simple mathematical models of high energetic UV filaments and discuss recent and new results from our analysis.