Spatiotemporal focusing of single-cycle light pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2025-2028

  Hunsche, S ^a,d   Feng, S ^b   Winful, H G ^b   Leitenstorfer, A ^a,e   Nuss, M C ^a   Ippen, E P ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHASE SHIFT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GOUY PHASE SHIFT; SINGLE-CYCLE LIGHT PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032621990     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.16.002025     Document Type: Article

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