Propagation characteristics of Airy-Bessel wave packets in free space

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4481-4492

  Ren, Zhijun ^a   Wu, Qiong ^a   Mao, Hefa ^a   Shi, Yile ^a,b   Fan, Changjiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

FREE SPACES; LIGHT BULLET; LONGITUDINAL ACCELERATION; NEW RESULTS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION IN FREE SPACES; TRANSMISSION MODE;

WAVE PACKETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84874514922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004481     Document Type: Article

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