Accurate and efficient implementation of the von Neumann representation for laser pulses with discrete and finite spectra

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dimler, Frank ^a   Fechner, Susanne ^a   Rodenberg, Alexander ^a   Brixner, Tobias ^a   Tannor, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY PULSE; COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; DISCRETE PHASE; DISCRETIZATIONS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FINITE NUMBER; FINITE SPECTRUM; GAUSSIANS; LOSS OF ACCURACY; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS; TRUNCATION EFFECTS; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

LASERS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 72049109977     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/105052     Document Type: Article

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