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Some aspects of thermal self-focusing

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The factors influencing the intensity at the focal point of a steady thermally self-focused beam are considered in detail and it is shown that in this case the beam will not split into filaments. The self-focusing of short pulses is considered and is shown that the shape of the focus depends on the time constant associated with the change of refractive index.

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  1. Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR

    A. M. Khachatrian & A. P. Sukhorukov

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Khachatrian, A.M., Sukhorukov, A.P. Some aspects of thermal self-focusing. Opto-electronics 3, 49–55 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01423513

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