Beam shaping with diffuse light by use of a single reflection

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2132-2137

  Bokor, Nandor ^a   Davidson, Nir ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

LASER-BEAM-SHAPING TECHNIQUES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0001226249     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002132     Document Type: Article

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