Self-pinching of pulsed laser beams during filamentary propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16429-16435

  Bree, Carsten ^a,b   Demircan, Ayhan ^a   Skupin, Stefan ^c,d   Berge, Luc ^e   Steinmeyer, Günter ^b  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e CEA DAM DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENTS (LAMP); LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; PINCH EFFECT; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BEAM DEFORMATION; LIGHT FILAMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; PULSE BREAK-UP; PULSED HIGH CURRENTS; SELF-COMPRESSION; SPATIO TEMPORAL; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 70349194937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016429     Document Type: Article

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