Twist of coherent fields and beam quality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2870, Issue , 1996, Pages 260-267

  Eppich, B ^a,b   Friberg, A T ^a,c   Gao, C ^a,d   Weber, H ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Laser und Medizin Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Astigmatic beams; Beam quality; Beam transformation; Symmetrizing of laser beams; Twist

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ASTIGMATIC BEAMS; BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; BEAM TRANSFORMATION; CIRCULAR SYMMETRY; INTENSITY STRUCTURE; PARTIALLY COHERENT; RING-LIKE STRUCTURES; TWIST;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0012143278     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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