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Conic Emission

Typical cone-shaped light emission, taken when a piece of white paper is used to intercept sideways the transmitting light of a femtosecond laser that propagates from the right to the left, producing a micro air plasma ball (also shown on the right)Olympus C5050Z. [Winner 2013 After Image photo contest.] —Zhijun Xu, Nankai University