Measurement of the superluminal group velocity of an ultrashort Bessel beam pulse

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作者
Alexeev, I [1 ]
Kim, KY [1 ]
Milchberg, HM [1 ]
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[1] Univ Maryland, Inst Phys Sci & Technol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.073901
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The superluminal group velocity of an ultrashort optical Bessel beam pulse is measured over its entire depth of field, corresponding to similar to2 x 10(4) optical wavelengths. The method used is to measure the traveling ionization front induced by the pulse.
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