Spot size, depth-of-focus, and diffraction ring intensity formulas for truncated Gaussian beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 620-625

  Urey, Hakan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POLYNOMIALS;

DIFFRACTION RING INTENSITY; GAUSSIAN BEAM; HUYGENS FRESNEL DIFFRACTION INTEGRAL;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 1142267450     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000620     Document Type: Article

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