High-efficiency production of propagation-invariant spot arrays

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2208-2215

  Lautanen, Jari ^a   Kettunen, Ville ^a   Laakkonen, Pasi ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FOCUSING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION;

SPOT ARRAYS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037765604     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.002208     Document Type: Article

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