Optical vortices generation using the Wollaston prism

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 7898-7903

  Kurzynowski, Piotr ^a   Woźniak, Władysław A ^a   Fra̧czek, Ewa ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRISMS; VORTEX FLOW;

BEAM PARAMETERS; MACH-ZENDER TWO-BEAM INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL MARKERS; OPTICAL VORTICES; WOLLASTON PRISMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751365006     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007898     Document Type: Article

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