Overcoming the Rayleigh criterion limit with optical vortices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Tamburini, F ^a   Anzolin, G ^a   Umbriaco, G ^a   Bianchini, A ^a   Barbieri, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT SOURCES; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN (LG) TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL VORTICES (OV); RAYLEIGH CRITERION; WHITE LIGHT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33750038262     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.163903     Document Type: Article

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