Loss of spatial coherence and limiting of focal plane intensity by small-scale laser-beam filamentation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Schweinsberg, Aaron ^a   Kuper, Jerry ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM; FILAMENTATION; FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL REGIONS; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; LASER WAVES; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL POWER LIMITING; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SPATIAL COHERENCE; THEORETICAL MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 81455135506     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.053837     Document Type: Article

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