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Transverse plasma distribution with 10(17) cm(-3) maximum electron density and 150 μm transverse size in a plasma filament formed in air by an intense femtosecond laser pulse was measured by means of optical interferometry. Two orders of magnitude decay of the electron density within 2 ns was obtained by combined use of the interferometry and newly proposed terahertz scattering techniques. Excellent agreement was obtained between the measured plasma density evolution and theoretical calculation.
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