Phase-stable sub-cycle mid-infrared conical emission from filamentation in gases

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24741-24747

  Nomura, Yutaka ^a   Shirai, Hideto ^b   Ishii, Kenta ^b   Tsurumachi, Noriaki ^b   Voronin, Alexander A ^c,d   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^c,d,e   Fuji, Takao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER OUTPUT; BEAM PROFILES; CONICAL EMISSION; FILAMENTATION; LASER INDUCED; MIDINFRARED; RING-SHAPED PATTERN; SECOND HARMONIC PULSE; SUB-CYCLE; TI:SAPPHIRE;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84868261850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024741     Document Type: Article

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