Waves, rays, and the method of stationary phase

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 740-751

  Stamnes, Jakob J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHASE COMPOSITION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BIAXIAL CRYSTAL; GAUSSIAN BEAM; METHOD OF STATIONARY PHASE (MSP); POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF) RAYS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 3042682599     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000740     Document Type: Article

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