Monitor-outside-a-monitor effect and self-similar fractal structure in the eigenmodes of unstable optical resonators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5320-5323

  Courtial, Johannes ^a   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; LASER RESONATORS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

EIGENMODES; MONITOR OUTSIDE A MONITOR EFFECT; PIXEL FUNCTION; SELF SIMILAR FRACTAL STRUCTURE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0034508302     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5320     Document Type: Article

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