Intensity Spikes in Laser Filamentation: Diagnostics and Application

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gaarde, Mette B ^a   Couairon, Arnaud ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON LASERS; LASER BEAMS;

ATTOSECONDS; FEMTOSECONDS; FILAMENTATION; HIGH HARMONICS; HIGH INTENSITY; LASER FILAMENTATION; PEAK INTENSITY; TRAILING EDGES;

LASER DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 68649109157     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.043901     Document Type: Article

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