Superresolution laser beam shaping

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2112-2117

  Jia, Jia ^a   Zhou, Changhe ^a   Sun, Xiaohui ^a   Liu, Liren ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

AIRY DIFFRACTIVE SPOT; CIRCULAR DAMMANN GRATING; FLAT TOP BEAM SHAPING; LASER BEAM SHAPING; SINGLE CIRCLE BEAM SHAPING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 1942423068     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002112     Document Type: Article

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