::: Movies :::

Self-focussing leads towards collapse.
Normal group velocity dispersion will split a collapsing pulse
Pulses of longer duration have their collapse halted due to
Plasma generation.
Interplay between plasma defocussing and self-focussing leads to an apparent long propagation of ultrashort pulses in air.
The Ikeda map with diffraction produces complex patterns.
BALSIM-Experimental spectrally resolved far-field outputs of a high power broad area semiconductor laser.



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