Emergent polarization singularities

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 539-541

  Freund, Isaac ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VECTORS;

FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HALF-INTEGER WINDING NUMBERS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 1642619455     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000539     Document Type: Article

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