Beam breakup and filament initiation induced by femtosecond pulse transmission through water aerosol

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5708, Issue , 2005, Pages 277-287

  Militsin, V O ^a   Kouzminskii, L S ^a   Kandidov, V P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aerosol particles; Femtosecond laser pulse; Filamentation; Random scattering media

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; FILAMENTATION; RANDOM SCATTERING MEDIA;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 21844477813     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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