Tailoring the filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses with periodic lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Panagiotopoulos, P ^a   Efremidis, N K ^b   Papazoglou, D G ^a,b   Couairon, A ^c   Tzortzakis, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER FILAMENTATION; FILAMENTATION; INTENSE FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; LATTICE SOLITONS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PERIODIC LATTICES; PROPAGATION REGIMES; SELF-ACTION EFFECTS; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 78650969563     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.061803     Document Type: Article

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