A class of partially coherent beams carrying optical vortices

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

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 150-156

  Ponomarenko, Sergey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPTICAL VORTICES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0001671211     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.000150     Document Type: Article

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