Ultrashort laser pulse filamentation from spontaneous X-Wave formation in air.
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چکیده
The description of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in condensed media as a spontaneous formation of X waves is shown to apply also to filaments generated in air. Within this framework, a simple explanation is brought for several features of the filament such as the subdiffractive propagation and the energy flux from the weakly localized tails of the X-waves to the intense core.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Optics express
دوره 16 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008