Spontaneous emergence of pulses with constant carrier-envelope phase in femtosecond filamentation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11103-11114

  Faccio, D ^a,f   Lotti, A ^a,f   Kolesik, M ^b   Moloney, J V ^b   Tzortzakis, S ^c   Couairon, A ^d,f   Di Trapani, P ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^d CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^e VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^f Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FUSED SILICA; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CONDENSED MEDIA; CONSTANT-CARRIER ENVELOPE; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTATION; GENERIC FEATURES; HIGH INTENSITY PULSE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PULSE SPLITTING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 47949121889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011103     Document Type: Article

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