Relativistic suppression of wave packet spreading

Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 277-281

  Su, Q ^a   Smetanko, B A ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DIRAC EQUATIONS; ELECTRON WAVE PACKETS; RELATIVISTIC MOTION; STATIC ELECTRIC FIELDS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0001069851     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.2.000277     Document Type: Article

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