Abstract
When intense TW-fs-laser pulses propagate in the atmosphere, nonlinear selffocusing effects cause the intense laser beams to disintegrate into several filaments. Selffocusing ceases when an equilibrium is achieved between diffraction, selffocusing and ionization [1,2]
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