Abstract
The development of new methods for light pulse compression should make it possible to obtain pulses as short as only several periods (up to single) of the light wave. The obvious optical feature of these wave objects, compared with traditional optics, is that they no longer can be considered as a quasimonochramatic wave. We report here the results of a theoretical study of pulsed electromagnetic beam propagation in vacuum when the slowly varying amplitude and phase approximation is inapplicable for describing the process.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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