Angular spectrum of quantized light beams

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 525-527

  Aiello, A ^a   Visser, J ^a   Nienhuis, G ^a   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPECTRUM; FORMALISM; NONPARAXIAL FIELDS; TIME-DEPENDENT PARAXIAL FIELDS; TIME-INDEPENDENT PARAXIAL FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

LIGHT;

EID: 33644925590     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000525     Document Type: Article

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