Abstract

The propagation of short broadband pulses in a homogeneous medium is analyzed on the basis of the wave equation and in the parabolic approximation of that equation. It is shown that the diffraction spreading of a focused optical pulsed beam does not occur in the limiting case of a δ pulse.

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