Okawachi Yoshitomo, Slepkov Aaron D, Agha Imad H, Geraghty David F, Gaeta Alexander L
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2007 Oct;24(10):3343-7. doi: 10.1364/josaa.24.003343.
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.