Energy interchange between large-scale free propagating filaments and its background reservoir

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 499-502

  Hao, Zuoqiang ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Lu, Xin ^a   Xi, Tingting ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Wang, Zhaohua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAPHRAGMS; FUSED SILICA; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ENERGY INTERCHANGE; ENERGY RESERVOIRS; FILAMENTATION; INTENSE FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; MULTIPLE FILAMENT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SCALE-FREE; SINGLE FILAMENTS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 63149185305     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000499     Document Type: Article

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