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Photonics Dictionary

white-light continuum

An extremely wide emission spectrum generated by the nonlinear effects created when a high peak power from a short-pulse laser is focused into a water or carbon tetrachloride cell. The resulting pulse of white light has the same duration as the original laser pulse.
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