Self-action and regularized self-guiding of pulsed Bessel-like beams in air

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 9893-9907

  Roskey, D E ^a   Kolesik, M ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Wright, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PLASMA DENSITY;

PULSED BESSEL-LIKE BEAMS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 34547774643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009893     Document Type: Article

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