Why do wave packets sometimes contract?

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 14-15, 2002, Pages 2365-2382

  Cohen, Leon ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER PULSES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

WAVE PACKETS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 0037146517     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950034021000011248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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