Relationship between elegant laguerre-gauss and bessel-gauss beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 177-184

  Porras, Miguel A ^a   Borghi, Riccardo ^b   Santarsiero, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SCALING FACTOR;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0001404041     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.000177     Document Type: Article

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