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Ultrafast Supercontinuum Generation in Transparent Solid-State Media

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Supercontinuum (SC) generation is one of the most spectacular and visually perceptible effects produced by the nonlinear propagation of intense ultrashort laser pulse in a transparent medium.

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  1. Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Audrius Dubietis

  2. Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France

    Arnaud Couairon

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Dubietis, A., Couairon, A. (2019). Introduction. In: Ultrafast Supercontinuum Generation in Transparent Solid-State Media. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14995-6_1

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