Nonlinear Propagation and Filamentation on 100 Meter Air Path of Femtosecond Beam Partitioned by Wire Mesh.

High-intensity (∼1 TW/cm2 and higher) region formed in the propagation of ∼60 GW, 90 fs Ti:Sapphire laser pulse on a ∼100 m path in air spans for several tens of meters and includes a plasma filament and a postfilament light channel. The intensity in this extended region is high enough to generate an infrared supercontinuum wing and to initiate laser-induced discharge in the gap between the electrodes. In the experiment and simulations, we delay the high-intensity region along the propagation direction by inserting metal-wire meshes with square cells at the laser system output.

Chlorin e6-cholesterol conjugate and its copper complex. Simple synthesis and entrapping in phospholipid vesicles.

Synthesis of 13'[(cholest-5-en)-3beta-yloxyethoxycarbamoyl]-chlorin e6 starting from methylpheophorbide and 3beta(2-hydroxy)-ethoxycholest-5-ene is presented, as well as the preparation of related copper complex. Both conjugates obtained may be simply incorporated in phosphatidyl choline vesicles.