Dual-color co-filamentation in Argon

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 14115-14127

  Béjot, Pierre ^a   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

COLOR; LASER ACCESSORIES; LASER PULSES; PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ATTOSECOND PULSE; CONTINUUM SPECTRA; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; DUAL COLOR; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FILAMENTATION; KERR LENS; PLASMA CHANNEL;

ARGON LASERS;

ARGON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ARGON; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 51149094984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014115     Document Type: Article

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