Spectrogram representation of pulse self compression by filamentation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17626-17636

  Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Couairon, Arbnaud ^b   Franco, Michel ^a   Mysyrowicz, Andre ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; PHASE MODULATION; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SPECTROGRAPHS; TIME DELAY;

NEGATIVE CHIRP; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PULSE SELF-COMPRESSION; PULSE SHORTENING; SELF-COMPRESSION; SPATIO TEMPORAL; SPECTRAL BROADENING; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 55349122940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017626     Document Type: Article

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