Space-time profiles of an ultrashort pulsed Gaussian beam

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 566-573

  Wang, Zhongyang ^a,b   Zhang, Zhengquan ^a,c,d,e,f   Xu, Zhizhan ^a,g,h,i,j,k   Lin, Qiang ^b,l  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung   (Germany)

^f Laser Plasma Phys Division of SIOM

^g FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^j Chinese Optical Society   (China)

^k OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^l VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Gaussian beams; Laser beams; Optical couplings; Optical distortion; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulsed beams; Ultrashort pulses; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONTS;

SPACE-TIME PROFILES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0031118489     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.563385     Document Type: Article

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