Intuitive analysis of space-time focusing with double-ABCD calculation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14244-14259

  Durfee, Charles G ^a   Greco, Michael ^a   Block, Erica ^a   Vitek, Dawn ^a   Squier, Jeff A ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; BEAMLETS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; GAUSSIANS; GEOMETRIC PHASE; INTENSITY PROFILES; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE-FRONT TILT;

FOCUSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84863737021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014244     Document Type: Article

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