Unveiling stability of multiple filamentation caused by axial symmetry breaking of polarization

Si-Min Li; Zhi-Cheng Ren; Ling-Jun Kong; Sheng-Xia Qian; Chenghou Tu; Yongnan Li; Hui-Tian Wang

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.4.000B29

Photonics Research, 2016, 4 (5): 05000B29, Published Online: Nov. 23, 2016

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Si-Min Li ¹Zhi-Cheng Ren ¹Ling-Jun Kong ¹Sheng-Xia Qian ¹Chenghou Tu ^1,2Yongnan Li ¹Hui-Tian Wang ^1,3,4,5

Author Affiliations

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

² e-mail: tuchenghou@nankai.edu.cn

³ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁵ e-mail: htwang@nju.edu.cn

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Si-Min Li, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Ling-Jun Kong, Sheng-Xia Qian, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang. Unveiling stability of multiple filamentation caused by axial symmetry breaking of polarization[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(5): 05000B29.

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