Spatial self-filtering with polarizer sheets

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-46

  Ferrari, José A ^a   Garbusi, Eugenio ^a   Frins, Erna M ^a   Píriz, Gustavo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRATION; LASER BEAMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PLASTIC FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VISUALIZATION;

NONLINEAR-OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLARIZER SHEETS; SPATIAL FILTERING; THERMAL LENS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 12144260914     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000041     Document Type: Article

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