Filamentation and supercontinuum generation during the propagation of powerful ultrashort laser pulses in optical media (white light laser)

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 121-146

  Chin, S L ^a,c,d   Brodeur, A ^a,d   Petit, S ^a   Kosareva, O G ^b   Kandidov, V P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; CONICAL EMISSION; INCOHERENT WHITE LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RING STRUCTURES; SUPER CONTINUUM; WHITE-LIGHT LASER;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 0033407026     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863599000096     Document Type: Article

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