Direct measurement of the group refractive index of air with interferometry between adjacent femtosecond pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4318-4324

  Yamaoka, Yoshihisa ^a   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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EID: 0037143305     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004318     Document Type: Article

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