Structure of Nondiffracting Waves and Some Interesting Applications

Localized Waves

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 43-77

  Zamboni Rached, Michel ^a   Recami, Erasmo ^b,c   Hernández Figueroa, Hugo E ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Axially symmetric solutions; Longitudinal intensity pattern; Nondiffracting superluminal wave pulse

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649412037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470168981.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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