Collapse arrest and self-guiding of femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10318-10323

  Kovachev, Lubomir M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT DISKS; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NONPARAXIAL MODELS; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34547810429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010318     Document Type: Article

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