Sub-critical regime of femtosecond inscription

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14750-14764

  Turitsyn, Sergei K ^a   Mezentsev, Vladimir K ^a   Dubov, Mykhaylo ^a   Rubenchik, Alexander M ^b   Fedoruk, Michail P ^c   Podivilov, Evgeny V ^d  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

FEMTOSECOND INSCRIPTION; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAMS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 35949000950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014750     Document Type: Article

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