Note: Due to technical limitations, thumbnails of high resolution GIF images such as this one will not be animated.
This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects.
The description on its file description page there is shown below.
Summary
DescriptionOptical dispersion dynamics.gif
English: Time evolution of a short pulse in a dispersive medium (k=w^2) showing that the longer wavelength components travel faster than the high frequency ones, resulting in chirping and pulse stretching.
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighbouring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.enCC0Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedicationfalsefalse