Propagation of self-focusing laser pulses in atmosphere: Experiment versus numerical simulation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2008-2016

  Pitts, Todd A ^a   Luk, Ting S ^a   Gruetzner, James K ^a   Nelson, Thomas R ^a   McPherson, Armon ^a   Cameron, Stewart M ^a   Bernstein, Aaron C ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FUSED SILICA; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL SHOCK; SELF FOCUSING LASER PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 9244240797     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002008     Document Type: Article

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