Multilevel phase-only array generators with a trapezoidal phase topology

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4713-4721

  Blair, Paul ^a   Lüpken, Herman ^b   Taghizadeh, Mohammad R ^a   Wyrowski, Frank ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Array illuminators; Diffractive phase elements; Optical computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037577697     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004713     Document Type: Article

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