Spatial-temporal Gauss-Laguerre waves in dispersive media

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Dec;68(6 Pt 2):066612. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.066612. Epub 2003 Dec 30.

Abstract

A family of dispersionless and diffractionless spatial-temporal Gauss-Laguerre waves propagating in dispersive linear and transparent media is introduced. Contrary to pulsed Bessel beams and envelope-X waves recently studied in media with normal dispersion, these spatiotemporal Gauss-Laguerre beams may exist both in the normal and anomalous dispersion spectral regions of the medium.