Versatile generation of optical vortices based on paraxial mode expansion

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

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2127-2133

  Yoshikawa, Yutaka ^a,b   Sasada, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CONVERTERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL GLASS;

OPTICAL VORTICES;

OPTICS;

EID: 0043074627     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.002127     Document Type: Article

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