Shooting Lightning Out of the Sky (IMAGE)

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Shooting Lightning Out of the Sky

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A picture of a femtosecond laser. The laser beam itself is invisible (800nm), but due to the formation of a plasma channel, the beam emits (visible) white light.

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Jenya Papeer, Hebrew University, Israel

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