Absorption of ultrashort optical pulses in water.
We investigate the linear propagation of 800 and 1530 nm ultrashort optical pulses in water. For all pulse repetition rates studied, we observe pure exponential decay down to a transmission of 2.5 x 10(-5). We further demonstrate that previous observations of nonmonoexponential decay and pulse splitup in broadband pulses are consistent with Beer's law in the purely linear regime.
Okawachi
Yoshitomo
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School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. yo22@cornell.edu
Slepkov
Aaron D
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Agha
Imad H
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Geraghty
David F
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Gaeta
Alexander L
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