Control of spatial polarization by use of a liquid crystal with an optically treated alignment layer and its application to beam apodization

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3752-3758

  Sueda, Keiichi ^a   Tsubakimoto, Kouji ^a   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM APODIZATION; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HIGH-POWER LASER SYSTEMS; SPATIAL POLARIZATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 22044441888     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003752     Document Type: Article

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