Intense dynamic bullets in a periodic lattice

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10057-10062

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

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTATION; NORMAL DISPERSION; PERIODIC LATTICES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SPATIOTEMPORAL EFFECTS;

PROJECTILES;

EID: 79957611802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010057     Document Type: Article

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