Analogue gravity and ultrashort laser pulse filamentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7728, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Faccio, D ^a,b   Belgiorno, F ^c   Cacciatori, S ^a,d   Clerici, M ^a,b   Gorini, V ^a,d   Ortenzi, G ^e   Rizzi, L ^a   Rubino, E ^a   Sala, V G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b CNISM Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

analogue gravity; Hawking radiation; nonlinear optics; ultrashort laser pulse filamentation

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE GRAVITY; FILAMENTATION; GENERAL RELATIVITY; HAWKING RADIATION; NONLINEAR KERR MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE PROPAGATION; QUANTUM FIELD; QUANTUM VACUUM; SPACE TIME GEOMETRY; SPACETIME METRICS; STANDARD REASONING; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RELATIVITY; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77954483292     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.855845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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