Trajectory of an optical vortex: Canonical vs. non-canonical

Optics Communications

Volumn 215, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Singh, R P ^a   Chowdhury, S R ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Canonical vortex; Non canonical vortex; Vortex trajectory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAMS; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL VORTEX;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037438969     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02250-2     Document Type: Article

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