Asymptotic description of pulsed ultrawideband electromagnetic beam field propagation in dispersive, attenuative media

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

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1704-1713

  Oughstun, Kurt Edmund ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0038457162     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001704     Document Type: Article

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