Optical vortices produced with a nonspiral phase plate

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8614-8621

  Kim, Guang Hoon ^a   Jeon, Jin Ho ^a   Ko, Kwang Hoon ^a   Moon, Hee Jong ^a   Lee, Jai Hyung ^a   Chang, Joon Sung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mixed dislocation; Optical vortex; Phase plate; Topological charge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000970340     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008614     Document Type: Article

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