Vacuum-field-induced filamentation in laser-beam propagation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1412-1415

  Nagasako, E M ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Agarwal, G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

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EID: 16944366481     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.1412     Document Type: Article

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