Generalized theoretical treatment and numerical method of time-resolved radially dependent laser pulses interacting with multiphoton absorbers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1894-1910

  Parilov, Evgueni ^a   Potasek, M J ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; MULTIPHOTON ABSORBERS; NANOSECOND PULSES; SHORT-PULSED LASER PROPAGATION; TIME-RESOLVED RADIALLY DEPENDENT LASER PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33749648407     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001894     Document Type: Article

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