Self and forced periodic arrangement of multiple filaments in glass

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1801-1819

  Bérubé, Jean Philippe ^a   Vallée, Réal ^a   Bernier, Martin ^a   Kosareva, Olga ^b   Panov, Nikolay ^b   Kandidov, Valery ^b   Chin, See Leang ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILAMENTS (LAMP); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

ADJACENT TRACK; BINARY PHASE; CRITICAL POWER; CYLINDRICAL LENS; FS PULSE; MULTIFILAMENTATION; MULTIPLE FILAMENT; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEAK INTENSITY; PHASE MASKS; QUASI-PERIODIC; REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODIFICATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 76149128368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001801     Document Type: Article

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