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Recently electromagnetic pulses with widths of picoseconds, 10−12 s, and even femtoseconds, 10−15 s, have become available. This opens a new field of inquiry called ultrafast spectroscopy. This new family of tools also provides new ways to look at old problems. This note will present a tutorial review of how these pulses together with inverse problems may enable scientists to address certain biological problems.
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De Facio, B. (1990). Inverse Problems for Dispersive Biological Media. In: Sabatier, P.C. (eds) Inverse Methods in Action. Inverse Problems and Theoretical Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75298-8_39
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