Axial emission and spectral broadening in self-focusing of femtosecond Bessel beams

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4168-4175

  Dubietis, A ^a   Polesana, P ^b   Valiulis, G ^a   Stabinis, A ^a   Di Trapani, P ^b   Piskarskas, A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT; PHASE MATCHING; WATER;

AXIAL EMISSION; BESSEL BEAMS; CONICAL IDLER WAVES; CONICAL PUMPS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34147130191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004168     Document Type: Article

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