Laser beam compressed into thin filament

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Scientists have been researching the process of laser pulse filamentation — the effect produced when a laser beam propagating in air focuses into a filament. The researchers discovered how this process influences the preliminary transition of a beam passing through quartz glass, which has applications in the field of nonlinear optics.
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