Generating doughnut-shaped beams with large charge numbers by use of liquid-crystal spiral phase plates

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2292-2297

  Wang, Q ^a   Sun, X W ^a   Shum, P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CONVERTERS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

DOUGHNUT SHAPED BEAMS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPIRAL PHASE PLATES;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 2342473307     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002292     Document Type: Article

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