Formation of filament and plasma channel by the Bessel incident beam in Ar gas: Role of the outer part of the beam

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12923-12938

  Song, Zhenming ^a   Nakajima, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FILAMENTS (LAMP); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS;

BEAM DIAMETERS; BESSEL BEAM; CENTRAL PEAKS; DINGER EQUATION; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY RESERVOIRS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; GAUSSIAN MODES; INCIDENT BEAMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMA CHANNEL; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 77953583268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012923     Document Type: Article

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