Extended filamentation with temporally chirped femtosecond Bessel-Gauss beams in air

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 575-584

  Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Kolesik, Miroslav ^a,b   Moloney, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CHIRP MODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ESTIMATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE CONTROL;

BESSEL-GAUSS BEAMS; CHIRPED PULSE; COMPRESSED PULSE; FILAMENT FORMATION; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; INPUT PULSE ENERGY; PLASMA CHANNEL; SIMPLE EXPRESSION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 58449117998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000575     Document Type: Article

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