The Gaussian lenses give birth to optical vortices in laser beams

Optics Communications

Volumn 145, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Kreminskaya, L V ^a   Soskin, M S ^a   Khizhnyak, A I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Gaussian lens; Laser beam; Optical singularities; Optical vortices

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS;

GAUSSIAN LIKE LENSES; OPTICAL SINGULARITIES; OPTICAL VORTICES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0030623023     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00473-2     Document Type: Article

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