Pulse self-compression to the single-cycle limit by filamentation in a gas with a pressure gradient

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2657-2659

  Couairon, A ^a   Franco, M ^b   Mysyrowicz, A ^b   Biegert, J ^c   Keller, U ^c  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENTATION; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; PULSE DURATION; PULSE SELF-COMPRESSION;

GASES; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; LASERS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 27744497050     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.002657     Document Type: Article

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