Performance of a cylindrical lens mode converter for producing Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes

Optics Communications

Volumn 159, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 13-18

  Courtial, J ^a   Padgett, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hermite Gaussian modes; Laguerre Gaussian modes; Laser modes; Mode converter

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

CYLINDRICAL LENS MODE CONVERTERS; HERMITE-GAUSSIAN LASER MODES; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN LASER MODES;

LASER MODES;

EID: 0032785302     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00599-9     Document Type: Article

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