Dependence of multiple filamentation on beam ellipticity

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4594-4599

  Grow, Taylor D ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BEAM ELLIPTICITY; BREAKUP PATTERNS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; MULTIPLE FILAMENTATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 22744444564     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004594     Document Type: Article

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