Collapse dynamics of super-Gaussian beams

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5468-5475

  Grow, Taylor D ^a   Ishaaya, Amiel A ^a   Vuong, Luat T ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Gavish, Nir ^b   Fibich, Gadi ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

COLLAPSE DYNAMICS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; SUPER-GAUSSIAN BEAMS; TOWNES PROFILE;

LIGHT;

EID: 33745152019     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005468     Document Type: Article

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