Critical power for self-focussing of a femtosecond laser pulse in helium

Optics Communications

Volumn 281, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2248-2251

  Bernhardt, J ^a   Simard, P T ^a   Liu, W ^a,b   Xu, H L ^a   Theberge F ^a,c   Azarm, A ^a   Daigle, J F ^a   Chin, S L ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FOCUSING; HELIUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FILAMENTATION; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF FOCUSSING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 39649124492     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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