Physics and applications of atmospheric nonlinear optics and filamentation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 466-493

  Kasparian, Jérôme ^a,b   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FILAMENTATION; NON-LINEAR PROPAGATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PHYSICS; REVIEW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASERS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PHYSICS;

EID: 38049105502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000466     Document Type: Article

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