Design concept for diffractive elements shaping partially coherent laser beams

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

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2915-2922

  Schäfer, Dirk ^a  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER BEAMS;

OPTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0037924395     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.002915     Document Type: Article

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