Failure of the quasimonochromatic approximation for ultrashort pulse propagation in a dispersive, attenuative medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 642-645

  Oughstun, Kurt E ^a   Xiao, Hong ^a  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0001293825     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.642     Document Type: Article

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