Self-action of tightly focused femtosecond laser radiation in air in a filamentation regime: Laboratory and numerical experiments

Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-157

  Geints, Yu E ^a   Zemlyanov, A A ^a   Kabanov, A M ^a   Matvienko, G G ^a   Stepanov, A N ^b  

^a V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 79951841448     PISSN: 10248560     EISSN: 20700393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1024856009020031     Document Type: Article

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