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Vol. 4, Issue 5, B29 (2016)

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

Si-Min Li¹, Zhi-Cheng Ren¹, Ling-Jun Kong¹, Sheng-Xia Qian¹..., Chenghou Tu^1,2, Yongnan Li¹ and Hui-Tian Wang^1,3,4,5|Show fewer author(s)

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

²e-mail: tuchenghou@nankai.edu.cn

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

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

⁵e-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," Photonics Res. 4, B29 (2016) Copy Citation Text

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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," Photonics Res. 4, B29 (2016)

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