Widening of Long-range femtosecond laser filaments in turbulent air

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8332-8341

  Ma, Yuan Yuan ^a,b   Lu, Xin ^a   Xi, Ting Ting ^a   Gong, Qi Huang ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; TURBULENCE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

AIR TURBULENCE; FILAMENTATION; FOCAL LENGTHS; FS LASER PULSE; INNER SCALE; LASER INTENSITIES; NON LINEAR;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 45249107740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008332     Document Type: Article

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