Generating 3D light packets that propagate without dispersing in time or space is not an easy task. Andy Chong from Cornell University told Nature Photonics how he and his co-workers came up with a simple and versatile approach to this problem.
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Won, R. Generating light bullets. Nature Photon 4, 126 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.284
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.284