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Abstract

Visualization 1 shows propagation of the central five spectral components of the spatially chirped pulse-beam from the prism experiment without the knife-edge. The top row shows the spatial profile of each beamlet as it propagates. The bottom left panel shows the summed intensity of these spectral components which is calculated from the individually propagated beamlets. The two bottom right panels show sagittal and tangential views of the beams colored by their local wavelengths, which are the same as Fig 3.a) and b). Here we are also showing the propagation of the beamlets, which are colored according to wavelength and have sizes proportional to their second moments. Based on these panels we can separately identify the beamlet crossing plane and focal plane of the beams in each direction