Wave optics simulation approach for partial spatially coherent beams

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 6986-6992

  Xiao, Xifeng ^a   Voelz, David ^a  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COHERENT BEAMS; GAUSSIAN SCHELL-MODEL; OPTICAL LASERS; WAVE OPTICS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33746926301     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006986     Document Type: Article

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