What is a filament?
- 10 August 2008
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Laser Physics
- Vol. 18 (8), 962-964
- https://doi.org/10.1134/s1054660x08080070
Abstract
By using intensity clamping as a guideline for the definition of a filament, we propose that a filament is the propagation core where plasma is generated.Keywords
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