Highly efficient phase-conjugation of a 1 μm pico-second Laguerre-Gaussian beam

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2250-2255

  Jung, Gyeong Bok ^a   Kanaya, Keiichiro ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MIRRORS; REFLECTION;

LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAM; OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE CONJUGATE REFLECTIVITY;

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

EID: 33645077618     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002250     Document Type: Article

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