Extraction characteristics of a one dimensional Talbot cavity with stochastic propagation phase

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 670-680

  Peterson, P ^a   Gavrielides, A ^a   Sharma, M P ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; LASER RESONATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCES (OPD); TALBOT EFFECTS; TALBOT IMAGING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0043111101     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000670     Document Type: Article

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