Tracking spectral shapes and temporal dynamics along a femtosecond filament

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19495-19507

  Schulz, Emilia ^a,b   Steingrube, Daniel S ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^c   Gaarde, Mette B ^d,e   Couairon, Arnaud ^f   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,g   Kovačev, Milutin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^g LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LIGHT;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTS; FILAMENTATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; HOT FILAMENT; LIGHT PULSE; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL SHAPES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

FILAMENTS (LAMP);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80053256774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019495     Document Type: Article

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