Helicoid modal analysis of laser oscillators with spherical aberration

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 33, 2002, Pages 6991-6999

  Kennedy, Chandler ^a  

^a Cutting Edge Optronics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LENSES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

SPHERICAL ABBERATIONS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0037146126     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006991     Document Type: Article

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