Control of the filamentation distance and pattern in long-range atmospheric propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2779-2784

  Eisenmann, Shmuel ^a   Louzon, Einat ^a   Katzir, Yiftach ^a   Palchan, Tala ^a   Zigler, Arie ^a   Sivan, Yonatan ^b   Fibich, Gadi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LENSES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMAS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; COLLAPSING PULSE; FILAMENTATION DISTANCE; PLASMA FILAMENTS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 33947423315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002779     Document Type: Article

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