Self-focusing distance of very high power laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5897-5903

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Eisenmann, Shmuel ^b   Ilan, Boaz ^c   Erlich, Yossi ^d   Fraenke, Moshe ^d   Henis, Zohar ^d   Gaeta, Alexander L ^e   Zigler, Arie ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^e School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DISULFIDE; LASER THEORY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; COLLAPSE DISTANCE; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 23744457918     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005897     Document Type: Article

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