Lommel pulses: An analytic form for localized waves of the focus wave mode type with bandlimited spectrum

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 150-160

  Sheppard, Colin J R ^a   Saari, Peeter ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOCUS WAVE MODES (FWM); LOCALIZED WAVES;

LASER PULSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38049176508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000150     Document Type: Article

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