Diffraction-free and dispersion-free pulsed beam propagation in dispersive media.
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 26 (17), 1364-6
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.26.001364
Abstract
The diffraction of pulsed beams of light is formulated as an anomalously dispersive phenomenon. In a dispersive material, the effects of material group-velocity dispersion and diffraction on pulsed beam propagation can mutually cancel if the transverse profile of the pulse is suitably chosen.Keywords
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