New theory for the treatment of a pulsed beam propagating through a grating pair

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-11

  Wang, Zhongyang ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a   Zhang, Zheng Quan ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GRATING PULSE COMPRESSION; MONOCHROMATIC OPTICAL BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0035121315     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.892718     Document Type: Article

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