White-light filaments induced by diffraction effects

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2025-2031

  Cook, K ^a   Kar, A K ^a   Lamb, R A ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Optronics Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HUYGENS-FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN CONDENSED MATTER;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 17444430875     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002025     Document Type: Article

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