Beam nonparaxiality, filament formation, and beam breakup in the self-focusing of optical beams

1 March 1988

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Vol. 5 (3) , 633-640
https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.5.000633

Abstract

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