Enhancement of peak intensity in a filament core with spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zeng, Bin ^a,c   Chu, Wei ^a,c   Gao, Hui ^b   Liu, Weiwei ^b   Li, Guihua ^a,c   Zhang, Haisu ^a,c   Yao, Jinping ^a   Ni, Jielei ^a,c   Chin, See Leang ^d   Cheng, Ya ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAMPING EFFECTS; FEMTOSECOND LASER FILAMENTATION; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PEAK INTENSITY;

ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 83655193012     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.063819     Document Type: Article

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