Creation of optical vortices in femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7599-7608

  Mariyenko, I G ^a   Strohaber, J ^a   Uiterwaal, C J G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; TOPOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIFFRACTION INTEGRAL; INTERFEROGRAMS; RADIATION PULSES; SPATIAL CHIRP;

HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 25144509008     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007599     Document Type: Article

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