Light filaments without self-channeling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Dubietis, Audrius ^a   Gaižauskas, Eugenijus ^a   Tamošauskas, Gintaras ^a   Di Trapani, Paolo ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; QUENCHING; RADIATION EFFECTS; SCANNING; SOLITONS; TURBULENCE; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BEAM-RESHAPING; CONICAL WAVES; LIGHT FILAMENT; NONLINEAR LOSSES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 3442902798     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.253903     Document Type: Article

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