Blueshifted continuum peaks from filamentation in the anomalous dispersion regime
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Magali Durand*, Khan Lim, Vytautas Jukna, Erik McKee, Matthieu Baudelet, Aurélien Houard, Martin Richardson, André Mysyrowicz, Arnaud Couairon 1 Townes Laser Institute, CREOL – The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA 2 Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91761 Palaiseau, France 3 Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France xxx
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