Complex-argument Laguerre-Gauss beams: Transport of mean-squared beam width

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7339-7343

  Seshadri, S R ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FOURIER INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; LAGUERRE-GAUSS BEAMS; MEAN-SQUARED BEAM; PROPAGATION PARAMETERS;

FOURIER OPTICS;

EID: 29344436266     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007339     Document Type: Article

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