Micro-confinement of microwave-plasma in photonic structures

Benoît Debord (1) , Frédéric Gérôme (1) , Raphaël Jamier (1) , Philippe Leprince (2) , Olivier Leroy (2) , Luis Lemos Alves (3) , Fetah A. Benabid (1) , Caroline Boisse-Laporte (2)

1 XLIM-PHOT - Photonique Fibre et Sources Cohérentes
2 LPGP - Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas
3 IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear [Lisboa]

We review on our previous experimental results on microwave microplasmas ignition in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers and elucidate on how such a plasma can be confined in the hollow-core without damaging the host structure.

Mots clés: Lasers; ultraviolet; Plasmas; Photonic crystal fibers

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Physique [physics]; Optique [physics.optics]

Benoît Debord, Frédéric Gérôme, Raphaël Jamier, Philippe Leprince, Olivier Leroy, et al.. Micro-confinement of microwave-plasma in photonic structures. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO US, Jun 2013, San Jose, United States. pp.Page CTu3K.6, ⟨10.1364/CLEO_SI.2013.CTu3K.6⟩. ⟨hal-00911198⟩