Generation of radially polarized beams with an image-rotating resonator

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3550-3554

  Armstrong, Darrell J ^a   Phillips, Mark C ^a   Smith, Arlee V ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

IMAGE-ROTATING RESONATORS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0037703692     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003550     Document Type: Article

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