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This work reports a temporal characteristic of a laser pulse undergoing filamentation in air. The diagnostic method is based on two-photon fluorescence measurement. The results show that the pulse duration, chirp rate and beam radius could be simultaneously quantitatively retrieved. This simple technique would be useful in practice to trace the underlying dynamics of filamentation in air.
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Liu, Y., Wen, Q., Xu, S. et al. Pulse characterization during femtosecond laser filamentation in air by two-photon fluorescence measurement. Appl. Phys. B 105, 825–831 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4480-9
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