Ultrashort-pulsed truncated polychromatic Bessel-Gauss beams

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1077-1089

  Grunwald, R ^a   Bock, M ^a   Kebbel, V ^b   Huferath, S ^c   Neumann, U ^d   Steinmeyer, G ^a   Stibenz, G ^e   Neron J L ^f   Piche M ^g  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Bwm GmbH Germany   (Germany)

^c BIAS BREMER INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE STRAHLTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^d F and T Fibers and Technology GmbH   (Germany)

^e APE Angewandte Physik und Elektronik GmbH   (Germany)

^f Doric Lenses   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; RAYLEIGH FADING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SMALL-ANGLE AXICON; SPATIAL PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38549155023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001077     Document Type: Article

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