Femtosecond filamentation and pulse compression in the wake of molecular alignment

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2593-2595

  Wu, Jian ^a   Cai, Hua ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a   Couairon, Arnaud ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAKES;

FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTATION; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FILAMENTATION; MOLECULAR GAS; PROPAGATING PROBE PULSE; RAMAN EXCITATION; SELF-COMPRESSION; ULTRABROAD SPECTRUM;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 56349116885     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002593     Document Type: Article

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