Filamentation in Kerr media from pulsed Bessel beams

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Polesana, P ^a   Franco, M ^b   Couairon, A ^c,e   Faccio, D ^a,e   Di Trapani, P ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONICAL ENERGY FLUX; PLASMA CHANNEL;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 42149091608     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043814     Document Type: Article

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