Modulated optical vortices

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 872-874

  Curtis, Jennifer E ^a,b   Grier, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; HOLOGRAPHY; LENSES; PHASE MODULATION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

OPTICAL VORTICES;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0038813847     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000872     Document Type: Article

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