Wave packet motion in relativistic electric fields

Laser Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-101

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

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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