Measurements and numerical analysis for femtosecond pulse deformations after propagation of hundreds of meters in air with water-vapor absorption lines

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 5523-5530

  Yamaoka, Yoshihisa ^a   Zeng, Lijiang ^b   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WATER ABSORPTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE DEFORMATIONS; LASER FIBERS; OPTICAL TUNNELS; PULSE PROPAGATIONS; WATER-VAPOR;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 7544249676     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005523     Document Type: Article

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