Few-cycle optical pulse production from collimated femtosecond laser beam filamentation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 667-674

  Uryupina, Daria ^a   Kurilova, Maria ^a   Mazhorova, Anna ^a,c   Panov, Nikolay ^a   Volkov, Roman ^a   Gorgutsa, Stepan ^a,c   Kosareva, Olga ^a   Savel'ev, Andrei ^a   Chin, See Leang ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; FILAMENTS (LAMP); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

ARGON GAS PRESSURE; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; COLLIMATED LASER BEAMS; COMPRESSED PULSE; DESIRED POSITION; FEMTOSECOND LASER BEAMS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; GAS TUBES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL PULSE; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77955693761     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000667     Document Type: Article

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