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Wave packet

In physics, a wave packet (or wave train) is a short "burst" or "envelope" of localized wave action that travels as a unit. A wave packet can be analyzed into, or can be synthesized from, an infinite set of component sinusoidal waves of different wavenumbers, with phases and amplitudes such that they interfere constructively only over a small region of space, and destructively elsewhere.
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University of Central Florida
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Argonne National Laboratory
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University of Central Florida
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Heidelberg University
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ITMO University
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Johns Hopkins University
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Weizmann Institute of Science
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Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
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University of Hyderabad
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University of Rochester
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