Optical vortices evolving from helicoidal integer and fractional phase steps

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-268

  Berry, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Phase; Singularities; Vortices

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL PHASE STEPS; HELICOIDAL INTEGER; OPTICAL VORTICES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFLECTION;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 1342303770     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/6/2/018     Document Type: Article

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