Temporal focusing by use of composite X waves

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

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1658-1665

  Shaarawi, Amr M ^a,d   Besieris, Ioannis M ^b   Said, Tarek M ^c  

^a The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cairo Higher Institute of Engineering   (Egypt)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

TEMPORAL FOCUSING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0042932658     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.001658     Document Type: Article

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