Far-field diffraction characteristics of a time-variant Gaussian pulsed beam propagating from a circular aperture

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2719-2727

  Hwang, Hone Ene ^a   Yang, Gwo Huei ^a  

^a CHUNG CHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circular aperture; Duration; Far field diffraction; Gaussian shaped pulse; Spectral intensity

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CIRCULAR APERTURES; GAUSSIAN-SHAPED PULSE;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0036863123     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1511243     Document Type: Article

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