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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 12, 1130(2018)

Extending optical filaments with phase-nested laser beams

Jia-Qi Lü¹, Ping-Ping Li¹, Dan Wang¹, Chenghou Tu¹, Yongnan Li^1,4, and Hui-Tian Wang^2,3、*

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¹School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

³Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁴e-mail: liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn

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Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Jul. 18, 2018

Accepted: Oct. 17, 2018

Published Online: Dec. 3, 2018

The Author Email: Hui-Tian Wang (htwang@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.001130

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