Polarization flowers

Optics Communications

Volumn 199, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 47-63

  Freund, Isaac ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Phase singularities; Polarization singularities; Stokes singularities; Topological indices; Vector fields

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; VECTORS;

GAUSSIAN LASER BEAMS; POLARIZATION VECTORS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0035889552     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01533-4     Document Type: Article

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