Femtosecond multi-filamentation control by mixture of gases: Towards synthesised nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15467-15474

  Alonso, Benjamín ^a   Zair, Amelle ^a   San Román, Julio ^a   Varela, Oscar ^b   Roso, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE LÁSERES PULSADOS CLPU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; FEMTOSECONDS; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FILAMENTATION; GAS CELL; MULTIPLE FILAMENT; NON-LINEARITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954907011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015467     Document Type: Article

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