Beam shaping profiles and propagation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5876, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Shealy, David L ^a   Hoffnagle, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser beam shaping; Optical design; Profiles; Propagation

Indexed keywords

FERMI-DIRAC; LASER BEAM SHAPING; PROFILES;

ASPHERICS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 29244448073     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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