Remote lasing from long distance towards Earth provides an efficient tool for remote sensing of the upper layers of the atmosphere. The basic element of such a system is a laser producing ultra-short pulses which are first negatively chirped before firing into the Earth‘s atmosphere. The atmospheric air imposes a positive chirp so at distances of several kilometres the laser pulse gets very short and has a very high intensity. At this point the air is ionized and the plasma filament forms a lasing medium., Hana Turčičová., and Obsahuje bibliografii