Supercontinuum laser beam (IMAGE)

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Supercontinuum laser beam

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For the new technique, the researchers developed a way to transmit a femtosecond pulsed laser through a thick optical window and then used a process called laser induced filamentation to expand it into a supercontinuum pulse that remains coherent. The range wavelengths in the expanded pulse is pictured.

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Alexis Bohlin, Luleå University of Technology

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