Optimal trade-off pupil for the synthesis of nondiffracting beams in free space

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

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2748-2757

  Provost, J N ^a   de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, J L ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; POWER RATIO; PUPIL; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; WAVE EQUATION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0031244724     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.002748     Document Type: Article

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