Soliton dynamics in the multiphoton plasma regime

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Husko, Chad A ^a,c   Combrié, Sylvain ^b   Colman, Pierre ^b   Zheng, Jiangjun ^a   De Rossi, Alfredo ^b   Wong, Chee Wei ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84873105458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01100     Document Type: Article

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