INVESTIGATION OF THE TEMPORAL SPREAD OF AN ULTRASHORT LIGHT-PULSE ON TRANSMISSION THROUGH A HIGHLY SCATTERING MEDIUM

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作者
BRUCE, NC
SCHMIDT, FEW
DAINTY, JC
BARRY, NP
HYDE, SCW
FRENCH, PMW
机构
[1] UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI & TECHNOL,DEPT PHYS,APPL OPT GRP,LONDON SW7 2BZ,ENGLAND
[2] UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI & TECHNOL,DEPT PHYS,FEMTOSECOND OPT GRP,LONDON SW7 2BZ,ENGLAND
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APPLIED OPTICS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 25期
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10.1364/AO.34.005823
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An experimental and theoretical investigation of the temporal spread of an ultrashort light pulse on transmission through a highly scattering medium has been made. For the strongly diffuse light, the transmitted pulse may be described by a universal function whose duration can be directly related to the width of the sample. For sufficiently scattering samples, experimental data and the diffusion approximation indicate that the output pulse duration scales with the square root of the sample width.
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页码:5823 / 5828
页数:6
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