Three-dimensional light distribution near the focus of a tightly focused beam of few-cycle optical pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Romallosa, Kristine Marie ^a   Bantang, Johnrob ^a   Saloma, Caesar ^a  

^a University of the Philippines ^*  (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER PULSES; LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; VECTORS;

GAUSSIAN SHAPED OPTICAL PULSES; RICHARDS WOLF VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL LIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0242610819     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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