Lens axicons illuminated by Gaussian beams for generation of uniform-axial intensity Bessel fields

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 803-807

  Pu, Jixiong ^a   Zhang, Huihua ^a   Nemoto, Shojiro ^b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL DEVICES;

AXICON; BESSEL BEAM; GAUSSIAN BEAM; SPHERICAL ABERRATION;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0033734381     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602430     Document Type: Article

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