Beam shaping with a plano-aspheric lens pair

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3090-3099

  Hoffnagle, John A ^a   Michael Jefferson, C ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspherics; Beams; Geometric optics; Illumination

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM SHAPING; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FIGURING (MRF);

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; RHEOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEFRONTS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0347694681     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1613957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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