Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 10, 103201(2021)
Polarization dependent clamping intensity inside a femtosecond filament in air
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Hao Guo, Xiang Dong, Tie-Jun Wang, Xuan Zhang, Na Chen, Fukang Yin, Yihai Wang, Lingang Zhang, Haiyi Sun, Jun Liu, Jiansheng Liu, Baifei Shen, Olga Kosareva, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li, "Polarization dependent clamping intensity inside a femtosecond filament in air," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 103201 (2021)
Category: Ultrafast Optics and Attosecond/High-field Physics
Received: Feb. 6, 2021
Accepted: Mar. 18, 2021
Posted: Mar. 18, 2021
Published Online: Aug. 12, 2021
The Author Email: Tie-Jun Wang (tiejunwang@siom.ac.cn)