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Yoshitomo Okawachi1, Aaron D Slepkov, Imad H Agha
1School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. yo22@cornell.edu
Abstract:
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.
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