Transverse-mode dependence of femtosecond filamentation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12217-12229

  Song, Zhenming ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^b   Nakajima, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BEAM DIAMETERS; DINGER EQUATION; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTATION; PLASMA CHANNEL; PULSE DURATIONS; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TRANSVERSE MODE; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 67749127532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012217     Document Type: Article

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