Efficient pseudo-nondiffracting beam shaping using a quasicontinuous-phase diffractive element

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 517-524

  Wang, Michael R ^a   Yu, Changyuan ^a   Varela, Alberto J ^b  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^b New Span Opto Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Diffractive optical elements; Gray level mask; Nondiffracting beam

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE); PSEUDO-NONDIFFRACTING BEAM SHAPING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0035305554     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1353800     Document Type: Article

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