Higher-order kerr terms allow ionization-free filamentation in gases

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Bejot P ^a,b   Kasparian, J ^a   Henin, S ^a   Loriot, V ^b   Vieillard, T ^b   Hertz, E ^b   Faucher, O ^b   Lavorel, B ^b   Wolf, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFOCUSING; FILAMENTATION; HIGHER ORDER; NONLINEAR INDEX; SELF-GUIDED FILAMENTS; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

ARGON; IONIZATION OF GASES; PLASMA DENSITY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 77949406322     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.103903     Document Type: Article

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