Focusing and correlation properties of white-light optical vortices

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7393-7398

  Shvedov, Vladlen ^a,b   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Volyar, Alexander ^b   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TAURIDA NATIONAL V I VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CORRELATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; VORTEX FLOW;

CORE VISIBILITY; POLICHROMATIC VORTICES; UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 25144497077     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007393     Document Type: Article

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