Airy-Bessel wave packets as versatile linear light bullets

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-106

  Chong, Andy ^a   Renninger, William H ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b   Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHERENT INSTABILITY; LOCALIZED WAVES; NEW APPROACHES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PLASMA PHYSICS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; STUDY AND APPLICATIONS; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

DISPERSIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 76449113756     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.264     Document Type: Article

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