Optical vortices: Folding and twisting waves of light

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 24-29

  Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Ostrovskaya, Elena A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL VORTICES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0035323999     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.12.4.000024     Document Type: Article

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