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Nonlinear Optics

Femtosecond Optical Precursors in Exciton Resonant Region

Masaru Sakai, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema

Published Jan 1, 2000• 0 citations
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Abstract

We performed propagation experiments of 150-fs optical pulses at the exciton resonance in CuCl. We observed several types of optical precursors corresponding to the Sommerfeld, the Brillouin, and the exciton precursors.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2000.tuc4

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