Manipulation of the Pancharatnam phase in vectorial vortices

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4208-4220

  Niv, Avi ^a   Biener, Gabriel ^a   Kleiner, Vladimir ^a   Hasman, Erez ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SPACE-VARIANT SUBWAVELENGTH GRATINGS; VECTORIAL VORTICES;

VECTORS;

EID: 33646596573     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004208     Document Type: Article

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