The general theory of first-order spatio-temporal distortions of gaussian pulses and beams

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8642-8661

  Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Gu, Xun ^a   Gabolde, Pablo ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COUPLINGS; DISTORTION (WAVES);

ANGULAR FREQUENCY; FIRST-ORDER COUPLING; GAUSSIAN PULSES AND BEAMS; SPATIAL DISPERSION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 26844502593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008642     Document Type: Article

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