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Laser-Induced Breakdown

Bright speckles intercepted on a piece of white paper after an azimuthally polarized femtosecond laser beam is focused into a glass slide. The demonstration shows the existence of laser-induced breakdown in glass. (Photo captured in by an iPhone 6.)

[Honorable Mention, OPN 2020 Photo Contest]

—Zhijun Xu, College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang, China