Self-focusing: Past and Present Fundamentals and Prospects
Self-focusing: Past and Present presents a comprehensive treatment of self-focusing and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. It connects the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filamentation, self-trapping, a
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Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova, Y. R. Shen (Eds.)
Self-focusing: Past and Present Fundamentals and Prospects
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Robert W. Boyd University of Rochester Rochester, NY [email protected]
Svetlana G. Lukishova University of Rochester Rochester, NY [email protected]
Y.R. Shen University of California Berkeley, CA [email protected]
ISSN: 0303-4216 ISBN: 978-0-387-32147-9 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-34727-1
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-34727-1
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Preface
Although self-focusing and other self-action phenomena have been studied extensively for nearly 50 years (see, e.g., reviews [1–5] and the bo
