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Photonics Research
Vol. 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、*

Author Affiliations

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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