Characteristics of multiple filaments generated by femtosecond laser pulses in air: Prefocused versus free propagation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Hao, Zuoqiang ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a,b   Zheng, Zhiyuan ^a   Lu, Xin ^a   Jin, Zhan ^a   Wang, Zhaohua ^a   Zhong, Jiayong ^a,c   Liu, Yunquan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

DYNAMIC SPATIAL EVOLUTION; FILAMENT SPLITTING; LASER INTENSITY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33845591211     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.066402     Document Type: Article

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