Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Laser tracks in rainbow films on water

A. V. Startsev, Yu. Yu. Stoilov

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: It is found that narrow non-diverging laser tracks, earlier studied in free soap films, can also arise in thin rainbow films, e.g., of petrol, on water.

Keywords: laser tracks, rainbow films.

PACS: 42.60.Jf, 42.82.-m, 77.55.+f

Received: 14.03.2012
Revised: 28.05.2012

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2012, 42:8, 750–752

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