Observation of the Formation of thePulse
- 6 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (6) , 552-555
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.552
Abstract
We have measured with 0.5-psec resolution the reshaping of small-area 7-psec laser pulses to pulses due to their passage through an optically thick sodium cell. The reshaped pulses have a picosecond oscillatory structure characteristic of pulses that extends over more than 100 psec. These observations are compared in detail with the predictions of theory and good agreement is obtained
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