Concentration of diffuse linear light sources with continuous optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3593-3597

  Davidson, Nir ^a   Khaykovich, Liev ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; LENSES; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

CONTINUOUS OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 0032614827     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003593     Document Type: Article

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