Partially coherent vortex beams with a separable phase

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 878-880

  Bogatyryova, Galina V ^a   Fel'de, Christina V ^a   Polyanskii, Peter V ^a   Ponomarenko, Sergey A ^b   Soskin, Marat S ^c   Wolf, Emil ^d,e  

^a CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HELIUM NEON LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

VORTEX BEAMS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL);

EID: 0037799369     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000878     Document Type: Article

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