Elegant laguerre-Gauss beams as a new tool for describing axisymmetric flattened Gaussian beams

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

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1627-1633

  Borghi, Riccardo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS;

LAGUERRE-GAUSS BEAMS;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0001742944     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001627     Document Type: Article

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