Two regions of mode selection in resonators with biprismlike elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2546-2552

  Parkhomenko, Yurij ^a   Spektor, Boris ^a   Shamir, Joseph ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LASER BEAMS; MANIPULATORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE SHIFT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIPRISMLIKE ELEMENTS (BPE); EXTERNAL BEAM-SHAPING ELEMENTS; MODE SELECTION; MODE STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 19944400104     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002546     Document Type: Article

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