Partially coherent flattened Gaussian beam and its paraxial propagation properties

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2623-2628

  Cai, Yangjian ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a JORCEP   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

CROSS-SPECTRAL DENSITY; FLATTENED GAUSSIAN BEAM; PROPAGATION FACTOR;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33751205896     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.002623     Document Type: Article

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