Laser beam shaping profiles and propagation

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5118-5131

  Shealy, David L ^a   Hoffnagle, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; IRRADIANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; KIRCHHOFF FRESNEL DIFFRACTION THEORY;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33748688817     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005118     Document Type: Article

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