Control of the collapse distance in atmospheric propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4946-4957

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Sivan, Yonatan ^a   Ehrlich, Yosi ^b   Louzon, Einat ^b   Fraenkel, Moshe ^b   Eisenmann, Shmuel ^c   Katzir, Yiftach ^c   Zigler, Arie ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NCR Sorvq   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCANDESCENT LAMPS; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; DOUBLE-LENS SETUP; FILAMENT LENGTH; FILAMENTATION;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 33745118280     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004946     Document Type: Article

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