Virginia TechBesieris, Ioannis M.Shaarawi, Amr M.2014-04-042014-04-042004-07-01Ioannis Besieris and Amr Shaarawi, "Paraxial localized waves in free space," Opt. Express 12, 3848-3864 (2004). doi: 10.1364/opex.12.0038481094-4087http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46950Subluminal, luminal and superluminal localized wave solutions to the paraxial pulsed beam equation in free space are determined. A clarification is also made to recent work on pulsed beams of arbitrary speed which are solutions of a narrowband temporal spectrum version of the forward pulsed beam equation. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.application/pdfenIn CopyrightAperture realizationsNondiffracting xLight-beamsEquationsEvolutionPulsesArticle - Refereedhttp://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-12-16-3848https://doi.org/10.1364/opex.12.003848