Long spatio-temporally stationary filaments in air using short pulse UV laser Bessel beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5052-5057

  Abdollahpour, D ^a   Panagiotopoulos, P ^a   Turconi, M ^b,e   Jedrkiewicz, O ^b,e   Faccio, D ^b,e   Trapani, P Di ^c   Couairon, A ^d,e   Papazoglou, D G ^a,f   Tzortzakis, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^e Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

BESSEL BEAM; HIGH DENSITY PLASMAS; SHORT PULSE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UV LASERS;

LASER BEAMS;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; HEAT; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 65249139945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005052     Document Type: Article

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