Efficient radially polarized laser beam generation with a double interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 1993, Pages 5222-5229

  Tidwell, Steve C ^a   Kim, Gerald H ^a   Kimura, Wayne D ^a  

^a STI OPTRONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Double interferometer; Laser particle acceleration; Radial polarization; Spiral phase delay plate

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERFEROMETERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; POLARIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

DOUBLE INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PARTICLE ACCELERATION; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; RADIALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAM; SPIRAL-PHASE-DELAY PLATES;

LASER BEAMS; INTERFEROMETERS;

LIGHT REFLECTION NOISE ELIMINATION; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETO-OPTICAL ISOLATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NOISE ELIMINATION;

EID: 0027671497     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.005222     Document Type: Article

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