Laser noise compression by filamentation at 400 nm in argon

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13295-13309

  Béjot, Pierre ^a   Bonnet, Christophe ^b   Boutou, Véronique ^b   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COHERENT CONTROL SPECTROSCOPY; CROSS CORRELATION; FILAMENTATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 35148882444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013295     Document Type: Article

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