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Nonlinear Optics in the Filamentation Regime

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Femtosecond filaments are narrow self-confined beams of laser light maintaining their beam diameters over distances widely exceeding the classical Rayleigh range of a laser beam. Such a self-organized, filamentary structure of light and free electric charges emerges when pulsed femtosecond laser radiation is focused into a gas cell.

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Brée, C. (2012). Introduction. In: Nonlinear Optics in the Filamentation Regime. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30930-4_1

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