Few-cycle laser-pulse collapse in Kerr media: The role of group-velocity dispersion and X -wave formation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Faccio, Daniele ^a,d   Clerici, Matteo ^a,d   Averchi, Alessandro ^a,d   Lotti, Antonio ^a,d   Jedrkiewicz, Ottavia ^a,d   Dubietis, Audrius ^b   Tamosauskas, Gintaras ^b   Couairon, Arnaud ^c,d   Bragheri, Francesca ^e   Papazoglou, Dimitris ^f,g   Tzortzakis, Stelios ^g   Di Trapani, Paolo ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LIGHT VELOCITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CRITICAL POWER; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FILAMENTATION; KERR MEDIA; MONOCHROMATIC BEAM; SELF-FOCUSING; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE PROPAGATION; X WAVES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 52349122927     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.033826     Document Type: Article

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