Communication modes applied to axicons

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-383

  Burvall, Anna ^a   Martinsson, Per ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXICONS; DIFFRACTION THEORY; QUADRATIC WAVES; SPHEROIDAL WAVE FUNCTIONS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 2942726415     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000377     Document Type: Article

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