Electromagnetic analysis of nonparaxial Bessel beams generated by diffractive axicons

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

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1817-1824

  Vahimaa, Pasi ^a   Kettunen, Ville ^a   Kuittinen, Markku ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 0004700879     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.001817     Document Type: Article

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