Light beams with elliptical flat-topped profiles

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 390-395

  Cai, Yangjian ^a   Lin, Qiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elliptical flat topped light beam; Optical system; Propagation properties

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS;

BINOMINAL COEFFICIENTS; ELLIPTICAL FLAT-TOPPED LIGHT BEAM; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 2142829280     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/6/4/015     Document Type: Article

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