Description of diffracted beams by weighted moments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2870, Issue , 1996, Pages 112-122

  Scholl, M ^a   Mutter S ^a   Post, O ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aperture diffraction; Beam characterisation; Beam radius; Diffracted beam; Divergence angle; Weighted moments; Weighting function; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

APERTURE DIFFRACTION; BEAM CHARACTERISATION; BEAM RADIUS; DIFFRACTED BEAMS; DIVERGENCE ANGLE; WEIGHTED MOMENTS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0038122479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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