Single-photon non-diffracting Bessel beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5531, Issue , 2004, Pages 7-16

  Lekki, John ^a   Nguyen, Quang Viet ^a   Seibert, Marc ^a   Weiland, Ken ^a   Williams, James ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL BEAMS; BETA BARIUM BORATE (BBO); SELF-INTERFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION (SPDC);

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 15744392684     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.562570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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