Axial irradiance of a focused beam

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1814-1823

  Mahajan, Virendra N ^a,b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; VISION;

ASTIGMATISM; AXIAL IRRADIANCE; COLLIMATED BEAMS; DIFFRACTION LIMIT; FOCAL POINT; FOCUSED BEAM; SPHERICAL ABERRATION;

LIGHT;

EID: 25444468350     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.001814     Document Type: Article

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