PUBLICATIONS of the TERAMOBILE PROJECT

Papers

• "Filament-Induced Birefringence in Argon". Laser Physics. 19, 336 (2009)
• "Multiple filamentation of non-uniformly focused ultrashort laser pulses". Applied Phyisics B. 94, 243 (2009)
• "Ultraviolet-visible conical emission by multiple laser filaments". Optics Express. 17, 4726 (2009)
• "Laser beams take a curve". Science. 324, 194 (2009)
• "Lightning control by lasers". Nature Photonics. 3, 120 (2009)
• "White-light symmetrization by the interaction of multifilamenting beams". Physical Reveiw A. 79, 053856 (2009)
• "Curved plasma channels Kerr lens and Airy prism". Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications. 4, 09039 (2009)
  "Optical rogue wave statistics in laser filamentation". Optics Express. 17, 12070 (2009)
  
• "Cross compression of light bullets by two-color cofilamentation". Physical Reveiw A. 78, 043804 (2008)
• "Dual-color co-filamentation in Argon". Optics Express. 16, 14115 (2008)
• "Ultrafast gaseous “half-wave plate”". Optics Express. 16, 7564 (2008)
• "Effects of atmospheric turbulence on remote optimal control experiments". Applied Physics Letters. 92, 041103 (2008)
  
• "Progress towards lightning control using lasers", Journal of the European Optical Society, 3, 08035 (2008)
  
• "Electric events synchronized with laser filaments in thunderclouds", Optics Express 16, 5757 (2008)
  
• "Forward THz radiation emission by femtosecond filamentation in gases: theory and experiment", New Journal of Physics 10, 013015 (2008)
  
• "Physics and applications of atmospheric nonlinear optics and filamentation", Optics Express 16, 466  (2008) 
  
• "Coherent and Incoherent Radial THz Radiation Emission from Femtosecond Filaments in Air", Optics Express 15, 15274 (2007) 
• "Terahertz radiation source in air based on bifilamentation of femtosecond laser pulses", Physical Review Letters 99, 135002 (2007)
• "Conical forward THz emission from femtosecond laser filamentation in air", Physical Review Letters 98, 235002 (2007)
  
• "Propagation of laser filaments through an extended turbulent region", Applied Physics Letters 91, 171106 (2007)
  
• "Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly-ionized, optically-transparent media", Reports on progress in physics, 70, 1633 (2007)
• "Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media", Physics Reports, 441, 47 (2007)
  
• "High current permanent discharges in air induced by femtosecond laser filamentation", Applied Physics Letters 90, 171501 (2007)
• "Spatial mode cleaning by femtosecond filamentation",  Optics Letters 31, 2601 (2006)
• "Femtosecond filamentation in air at low pressures: part I: theory and numerical simulations", Optics Communications 259, 265 (2006)
• "Femtosecond filamentation in air at low pressures: part II: laboratory experiments", Optics Communications 261, 322 (2006)
  
• "Optimal control of filamentation in air", Applied Physics Letters 89, 171117 (2006)
  
• "Improved laser triggering and guiding of Megavolt discharges with fs-ns double pulses", Applied Physics Letters 88, 021101 (2006)
• "UV-Supercontinuum generated by femtosecond pulse filamentation in air: Meter-range experiments versus numerical simulations", Applied Physics B 82, 341 (2006)
  
• "Influence of negative leader propagation on the triggering and guiding of high voltage discharges by laser filaments", Applied Physics B 82, 561 (2006) (DOI 10.1007/s00340-005-2061-5)
• "Laser femtoseconde, filamentation, nuage et orage", J. Phys. IV 127, 205 (2005)
• "Multifilamentation transmission through fog", Physical Review E 72, 026611 (2005)
  
• "Filament-induced remote surface ablation for long range LIBS operation",  Spectrochemica Acta B 60, 1025 (2005)
  
• "Propagation of fs-TW laser filaments in adverse atmospheric conditions", Applied Physics B 80, 785 (2005)
• "Supercontinuum emission and enhanced self-guiding of infrared femtosecond filaments sustained by third-harmonic generation in air", Physical Review E 71, 016602 (2005)
• "Range of plasma filaments created in air by a multi-terawatt femtosecond laser", Optics Communications 247, 171 (2005)
  
• "Triggering and guiding of MV discharges by laser-induced filaments under rain conditions", Applied Physics Letters 82, 5781 (2004)
  
• "White-light filaments for multiparameter analysis of cloud microphysics", JOSA B 22, 369 (2005)
• "Long-distance remote laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using filamentation in air", Applied Physics Letters 85(18), 3977 (2004)
• "Filamentation of femtosecond light pulses in air: Turbulent cells versus long-range clusters", Physical Review E, 70, 046602 (2004)
• "Long range self-channeling of infrared laser pulses in air: a new propagation regime without ionisation", Applied Physics B, 79, 379 (2004)
  
• "Multiple filamentation of terawatt laser pulses in air", Physical Review Letters 92, 225002 (2004)
  
• "Spatial break-up of femtosecond laser pulses in the atmosphere", Physica Scripta T107, 135 (2004)
• "Remote Detection and Identification of Biological Aerosols using a Femtosecond Terawatt Lidar System", Applied Physics B 78, 535 (2004). DOI: 10.1007/s00340-004-1466-x
• "Remote LIBS with ultra-short pulses: characteristics in picosecond and femtosecond regimes", Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 19, 437 (2004)
• "Kilometer-range non-linear propagation of fs laser pulses" Physical Review E 69, 036607 (2004)
• Science, "White-light filaments for atmospheric analysis", 301 (4 July), 61-64 (2003). Abstract - Full text.
• "Sonographic probing of laser filaments in air", Applied Optics, 42(36), 7117 (2003)
• Applied Phyiscs B, "Towards a supercontinuum-based infrared Lidar", 77, 357 (2003)
• European Physical Journal - Applied Physics, "Teramobile: a Mobile Femtosecond-Terawatt Laser and Detection System", 20:3, 183 (2002)
• Optics Letters, "Triggering and Guiding High Voltage Discharge by Ohmic Connection through Ionized Filaments Created by Femtosecond Laser Pulses", 27(9), pp 772-774 (2002)
• Appl. Phys. B,"Modifications to the lidar equation due to nonlinear propagation in air", 73:2, pp 157-163 (2001)
• Optics Letters, "Backward supercontinuum emission from filaments  generated by ultrashort laser pulses in air", 26:8, pp 533-535 (2001)
• Applied Physics B, "The critical laser intensity of self-guided light filaments in air", 71:6, pp 877-879 (2000)
• Optics Letters, "Infrared extension of the hypercontinuum generated by fs-TW-laser pulses propagating in the atmosphere", 25:18, pp 1397-1399 (2000)

Conference contributions

• "TW lasers in air: ultra-high powers and optimal control strategies", ICONO/LAT 2007, Minsk, Belarus, 28/05-01/06/07. Invited talk, L. Bonacina
• "Beyond filamentation of TW lasers in air: Ultra-high powers and optimal control strategies", International Symposium on ultrafast intense laser filamentation (Québec, Canada, 27-30 September 2006). Invited talk, L. Bonacina
  
• "Propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in adverse conditions and applications to lightning control", International Symposium on ultrafast intense laser filamentation (Québec, Canada, 27-30 September 2006). Invited talk, J. Kasparian
  
• "Propagation of TW laser pulses in air and applications to the lightning control",  Cleo Europe 2005 (Munich, Germany). Invited talk, J.-P. Wolf
• "Super-broadband continuum at UV-visible wavelengths generated by ultrashort laser pulses in air" (CLEO 2005, Baltimore)
  
• "Filament induced breakdown spectroscopy for long distance applications", ICONO/LAT 2005, St Petersburg, Russia, 11-15 May 2005 (invited talk, K. Stelmaszczyk)
  
• "Non-linear effects accompanying terawatt laser-pulse in air and their applications", Lightmetry 2004, Warsaw, Poland, 20-22 October 2004 (invited talk, K. Stelmaszczyk) - Proceedings of the SPIE vol. 6158, pp61580F1-12 (2006) - DOI 10.1117/12.675772
  
• "Propagation des impulsions femtosecondes dans l'atmosphère", Femto 2004. Invited talk, J. P. Wolf
  
• "Remote LIBS with femtosecond laser pulses", Workshop on Security Applications of LIBS, Malaga, Spain, 27-28/09/04. Invited talk, J. Yu
  
• "Remote LIBS with femtosecond pulses", LIBS 2004, 28/09 - 01/10/04, Malaga, Spain. Oral talk, J. Yu
  
• "Laser femtoseconde, nuage et orage", X-UV 2004, St Etienne, 7-11 / 06 / 04. Invited talk, J. Kasparian.
  
• "Probing the Atmosphere using a Femtosecond Terawatt Lidar", LOB Berlin 2004, invited talk, J. Kasparian.
• "Femtosecond white-light Lidar for simultaneous cloud sizing and relative humidity measurements", ILRC22, 12-16/07/2004, Matera, Italy. (oral talk, G. Méjean)
• "Nonlinear aerosol Lidar for remote detection and identification of bioaerosols in clouds", ILRC22, 12-16/07/2004, Matera, Italy. (oral talk, J. P. Wolf)
• "Propagation non-linéaire d’impulsions laser ultra-brèves à l’échelle du kilomètre et applications au Lidar",Ecole des lasers, Tanger, 15-19/12/03 (invited talk, J. Kasparian)
• "Long range horizontal propagation of femtosecond self-channelled laser pulses in air", Cleo 2004, San Francisco, USA (oral talk, G. Méchain)
  
• "Probing the Atmosphere using a Femtosecond Terawatt Lidar", Cleo 2004, plenary talk, J. P. Wolf.
• "Long range propagation of femtosecond self-channelled laser pulses in air", Cleo 2004, oral talk G. Méjean
• "Propagation non-linéaire d’impulsions laser ultra-brèves à l’échelle du kilomètre et applications au Lidar", Journées des phénomènes ultrarapides 2003, Mittelwihr, France, 22-24/10/03 (invited talk, J. Kasparian)
• "Décharges de haute tension déclenchées et guidées par des impulsions laser ultra-courtes", Journées des phénomènes ultrarapides 2003, Mittelwihr, France, 22-24/10/03 (J. Yu)
• "Probing the Atmosphere using a Femtosecond Terawatt Lidar", Invited Talk in Active Optical Sensing (J. P. Wolf)
• "Interaction of Ultrashort and Ultra-intense Laser Pulses with Aerosols and Clouds", international symposium on ultrafast laser science II, Quebec, Canada, 25-29/09/03 (invited talk, J. P. Wolf)
• "Long-distance non-linear propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere and Lidar applications", international symposium on ultrafast laser science II, Quebec, Canada, 25-29/09/03 (invited talk, J.Kasparian)
• "Déclenchement et guidage de décharges de hautes tensions avec des filaments induits par des impulsions laser ultra-intenses", as an oral talk at the annual meeting of the SFP, 7-10/07/03.
• "Propagation verticale d'impulsions laser ultracourtes  dans l'atmosphère et mesures Lidar  utilisant le Teramobile", as an oral talk at the annual meeting of the SFP, 7-10/07/03.
• "Sonographie: une nouvelle méthode pour caractériser les filaments de lumière créés par des impulsions laser ultra-intenses", as an oral talk at the annual meeting of the SFP, 7-10/07/03.
• "New perspectives in environmental analysis by means of Femtosecond Lidar", invited talk, K. Stelmaszyck at the Laser Optics 2003 conference (St. Petersburg, June 30 - July 4, 2003)
• "Experiments with the Teramobile Facility: A Mobile Terawatt Laser for Atmospheric Research", invited talk, R. Sauerbrey at the Laser Optics 2003 conference (St. Petersburg, June 30 - July 4, 2003).
• "Study of long range filamentary propagation of intense ultrashort laser pulses in atmosphere", invited talk, A. Mysyrowicz at the Laser Optics 2003 conference (St. Petersburg, June 30 - July 4, 2003).
• "Neue Perspektiven atmosphärischer Fernerkundung: Femtosekunden-Weißlicht-LIDAR" (invited talk, L. Wöste at the spring meeting of the DPG, Hannover, 24-28/03/02)
• "TERAMOBILE: Femtosekunden-Weißlicht-Lidar" (Oral talk by M. Rodriguez at the spring meeting of the DPG, Hannover, 24-28/03/02)
• "TERAMOBILE: Contribution to laser-induced lightning studies" (Oral talk by R. Bourayou at the spring meeting of the DPG, Hannover, 24-28/03/02)
• "TERAMOBILE: Ein mobiles Femtosekunden-Terawatt-Lasersystem für verschiedene Anwendungen in der Atmosphärenphysik" (poster at the DPG, Hannover, 24-28/03/02)
• "Experiments with the Teramobile Facility: A Mobile Terawatt Laser for Atmospheric Research", XI International Conference on Laser Optics (LO'2003) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30 to July 04, 2003. Invited talk, Prof. Sauerbrey.
• "Vertical propagation of ultrashort laser pulses and Lidar measurements using the Teramobile" (Invited talk at CLEOEurope 2003, J. Kasparian)
• "Sonography: a new method to measure laser filaments in air" (Oral presentation at CLEO 2003, J. Yu)
• "Megavolt discharges triggered and guided with laser filaments"(Oral presentation at CLEO 2003, J. Yu)
• Invited talk at the "?International symposium on ultrafast intense laser science 2: propagation and interaction", 27-29 September, 2003 in Quebec City, Canada.
• Invited talk by Roland Sauerbrey to the session  "Long distance propagation of short pulses in air" of the 87th OSA annual meeting Frontier in Optics to be held in Tucson October 5-9, 2003
• "Teramobile: femtosecond Lidar and other atmospheric applications of ultrashort lasers", 286th Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 13-16/09/02. Invited talk, J. Kasparian
• "Perspectives of remote sensing of aerosol analysis by means of fs-Lidar", 286th Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 13-16/09/02. Invited talk, J. P. Wolf
• "Sonographic probing of laser filaments in air", 286th Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 13-16/09/02. Poster
• "Filamentation: recent progresses", 286th Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 13-16/09/02. Invited talk, A. Mysyrowicz
• "Laser applications in Lidar and atmospheric sciences", 12th SQE, Varna, Bulgaria, 23-28/09/02. Invited talk, J. Kasparian
• "Sonder l'Atmosphère avec des Impulsions Laser Femtosecondes et Terawatt", PAMO 2002, Bourges, France 1-3/07/02 (invited talk, J. P. Wolf)
• "Femtosecond lidar technology in atmospheric study", IQEC/LAT (Conference on Lasers, Applications and Technologies) 2002, Moscow, Russia, 22-28/06/02 (Invited talk, L. Wöste/M. Rodriguez).
• "Triggering and guiding long-gap discharges using fs-TW laser induced ionized filaments", International Symposium on Science of Super-Strong Field Interactions, Hayama, Japan, 13-16 March 2002.
• "Teramobile: a nonlinear femtosecond Terawatt Lidar", ILRC 2002, 8-12/07/02, Quebec city, Canada , invited talk by J.-P. Wolf.
• ONERA workshop on lightning, 06/11/01. "Triggering and guiding of high-voltage discharges using fs-laser-produced plasma filaments"
• Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Semiconductor Lasers, Cork, Ireland, 5-8/09/01. "The Teramobile: Facility and First Experiments" (R. Sauerbrey, invited talk)
• International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Quebec, Canada, 04-06/10/01: "Long-distance propagation of fs-TW pulses in air" (J. Kasparian, invited talk)
• International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Quebec, Canada, 04-06/10/01: "The Teramobile: facility and first experiments" (R. Sauerbrey, invited talk)
• ICONO 2001, Minsk, Belarus, 26/06-01/07/2001, "Nonlinear propagation of femtosecond pulses in the atmosphere"
• 5èmes journées des phénomènes ultra-rapides, Col de Portes-Grenoble, France, 31/05-01/06/2001, "Rétro-émission du continuum généré dans un filament induit par des impulsions ultra-intenses"
• "Projet Teramobile : propagation des impulsions terawatt dans l'air et application à la détection par lidar des pollutions atmosphériques", in "Systèmes femtosecondes", Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, St Etienne, France, pp. 143-146 (2001) (Jin Yu's talk at Femto2000 workshop)
• CLEO Europe-IQEC 2000, NiceAcropolis, 10-15 September 2000, Nice, France, "Characterization and optimization of infrared emission from light filaments observed in a fs-TW laser beam propagating in the atmosphere"  (oral paper)
• LPHYS 2000, Bordeaux, 16-21/07/2000, "High intensity laser-beam propagation in the earth atmosphere" (oral paper)
• CLEO/QELS 2000, The Moscone Convention Center, 7-12 May 2000, San Francisco, California, USA., "Long range propagation of terawatt laser pulses in the earth atmosphere" (invited talk, Prof. Sauerbrey)
• ASSL, Davos, 13.02.-16.02.00, "Light filaments generated by terawatt-laser pulses - conductivity, spectral contents and lidar measurements"

Posters

• COLOQ7, Rennes, France, 05-07/09/2001 "Rétro-émission du continuum généré dans un filament induit par des impulsions ultra-intenses". Proceedings in Journal de Physique IV, 12 (4), 383 (2002)
• Opto2000, Erfurt, 9-11/05/00, "Weisslichtgeneration im infrarotem, sichtbarem und ultraviolettem Spectralbereich mit LIDAR-Anwendungen"
• DPG, mars 2000, Bremen, "Hochleistungslaser in der Atmosphäre"

Reports, theses and student's works

• Ciro d'Amico, "Filamentation femtoseconde dans les milieux transparents passifs et amplificateurs, et étude de la filamentation comme source de radiation secondaire", PhD thesis, Ecole Polytechnique, 2007
  
• Roland Ackermann, "Propagation of terawatt-femtosecond laser pulses and its application to the triggering and guiding of high-voltage discharges", PhD thesis, Univsersité Lyon 1, 2006
• Grégoire Méchain, "Etude de la filamentation d'impulsions laser femtosecondes dans l'air", PhD thesis, Ecole Polytechnique
  
• Guillaume Méjean "Propagation d'impulsions Térawatts femtosecondes dans l'atmosphère et applications", PhD Thesis, Université Lyon 1, 2005
  
• Jérôme Kasparian, "Propagation non-linéaire d'impulsions laser ultrabrèves dans l'atmosphère et applications", Habilitation à diriger les recherches, Université Lyon 1, 2005
  
• Miguel Rodriguez, "Terawatt-Femtosekunden-Laserpulse in der Atmosphäre: Phänomene und Anwendungen", PhD thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 19/06/04. Official PhD site at FU Berlin.
  
• Vinciane Polus, Antoine Loucheux, Thomas Plennevaux "Le projet Téramobile", "TIPE" in Lycée Robespierre, 2003.
• Steffen Frey, "Laser-Fernerkundung der planetaren Grenzschicht", PhD thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2002.
• Guillaume Méjean : "Propagation non-linéaire de faisceaux laser intenses dans l'atmosphère", Rapport de DEA, Université Lyon 1, 2002
• Didier Mondelain: "Lidar linéaire et non-linéaire dans l'infrarouge moyen", PhD thesis, Université Lyon 1, 2001. The summary is also available.
• Stelios Tzortzakis: "Filamentation d'impulsions laser femtoseconde dans des milieux nonlinéaires transparents", PhD Thesis, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 2001
• Nicolas Gallice : "Les laseres femtoseconde", Magistere thesis, Université Lyon 1, 2001
• Nicolas Gallice : "Impulsions femtosecondes ultra-intenses et caractérisation de líatmosphère", Diploma thesis, Université Lyon 1, 2001
• Arnaud Mialon, Xavier Blanchet : "Application des lasers ultra-intenses au déclenchement actif de la foudre", TERE, Université Lyon 1, 2001

Popular science articles

• G. Méjean, J. Kasparian, J. P. Wolf, "Le laser pour guider l'éclair", Météo Magazine 2 (June 2008)
  
• L. Wöste, R. Sauerbrey, "Combating Thunder and Lightning with Lasers", German Research 29, 10 (2007)
  
• Thu-Hoa Tran-Thi et al., "Détecter les polluants dans l’air et dans l’eau", l'Actualité chimique 308-309, 62, May-June 2007. PDF reprint on request.
  
• Guillaume Méjean, Jérôme Kasparian, Jean-Pierre Wolf. "Téramobile: un laser femtoseconde pour étudier l'atmosphère", Reflets de la Physique 1, Septembre-octobre 2006
• Jérôme Kasparian, "Des filaments de lumière", Dossiers pour la Science 56 Octobre-décembre 2006. PDF reprint on request.
  
• Jérôme Kasparian, "Filaments of Light", American Scientist  94, 150 (2006). PDF reprint on request.
  
• Jérôme Kasparian, "Le projet Téramobile et ses applications", Photoniques 21, January-February 2006
  
• Roland Ackermann, "Laserstrahlen als Blitzableiter", Physik in unserer Zeit, February 2005
• Jérôme Kasparian, "Les lasers femtoseconde : applications atmospériques", Techniques de l'Ingénieur, February 2004
• " Le Teramobile : un système laser femtoseconde mobile pour les applications à la physique de l'atmosphère", lettre de l'ACO, 2002.

Related publications

Papers

• Physical Review A, "Laser multiple filamentation control in air using a smooth phase mask", 77, 013812 (2008)
  
• Applied Physics Letters, "32 TW atmospheric white-light laser", 90, 151106 (2007)
• Applied Physics B, "Spectral correlation and noise reduction in laser filaments", 87, 1 (2007)
• Applied Physics Letters, "Laser noise reduction in air", 88, 251112 (2006)
• Optics Letters, "Laser filaments generated and transmitted in highly turbulent air", 31, 86 (2006)
• Applied Physics B, "Ray tracing simulation of ionization-free filamentation", 79, 947 (2004)
• Applied Physics Letters, "Light Filaments Transmitted through Clouds", 83, 123 (2003)
• Physical Review Letters, "Breakup and fusion of self-guided femtosecond light pulses in air", 86, 5470 (2001)
• Physical Review E, "Femtosecond laser-guided electric discharges in air", 64, 057401 (2001)
• Optics Communications, "Femtosecond and picosecond ultraviolet laser filaments in air: experiments and simulations", 197, pp 131-143 (2001)
• Optics Letters, "Non-linear propagation of sub-picosecond UV laser pulses in air", 25:17, pp 1270-1272 (2000)
• Applied Physics B, "Remote sensing of the atmosphere using ultrashort pulses", 71:4, 573-580 (2000)

Books and book sections

• "Some properties of femtosecond laser filamentation relevant to atmospheric applications. Part I. The robustness of filamentation", and "Some properties of femtosecond laser filamentation relevant to atmospheric applications II. Large-scale filamentation", in "Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II", , Kaoru Yamanouchi, See Leang Chin, Pierre Agostini, Gaetano Ferrante Edotors, Springer Series in Chemical Physics , Vol. 85, Springer, Berlin, 2007
• "Dial revisited: Belinda and white-light femtosecond Lidar", in "Range-Resolved Optical Sensing of the Atmosphere", ISBN 0-387-40075-3, Springer-Verlag New York (2005)
• "Femtosecond white-light Lidar" in "Laser remote sensing", T. Fujii and Eds, Marcel Dekker Inc publisher, New York, 2005
• "Application perspectives of intense laser pulses in atmospheric diagnostics", in Laser in Environmental and Life Sciences - Modern Analytical Methods". Peter Hering, Jan P. Lay, Sandra Stry Eds., Springer, 2003, p. 19.

Conferences contributions

• Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Semiconductor Lasers, Cork, Ireland, 5-8/09/01. "Self-Guided Propagation of Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse through the Atmosphere" (A. Mysyrowicz, invited talk)
• CLEO/QELS 2000, The Moscone Convention Center, 7-12 May 2000, San Francisco, California, USA.
• "Long connected plasma channels in air produced by ultrashort UV laser pulses". (oral paper)
• "Self-Guiding of IR femtosecond laser pulses in air: Experiments versus Simulations".  (oral paper)
• CLEO Europe-IQEC 2000, NiceAcropolis, 10-15 September 2000, Nice, France.
• "Femtosecond Laser-guided Electric Discharge in Air". (oral paper)
• "Sub-picosecond UV laser pulse filamentation in atmosphere". (oral paper)
• Nonlinear Optics 2000, 7-11 August 2000, Kauai-Lihue, Hawaii, USA, "Break-up, coalescence and self-guiding of  femtosecond laser pulses in air". (oral paper)
• International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Quebec, Canada, 04-06/10/01: "Study of the propagation of intense femtosecond pulses in air and other transparent media" (A. Mysyrowicz, invited talk)