Extended focus diffractive optical element for Gaussian laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 144-150

  Golub, Michael A ^a,b   Shurman, Valery ^a   Grossinger, Israel ^a  

^a Holo Or Ltd   (Israel)

^b ExPlay Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; FOCAL DOMAIN; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAMS; LOW SIDELOBES; WAVEFRONT;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 30844435282     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000144     Document Type: Article

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