Beam-shaping longitudinal range of a binary diffractive optical element

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 8136-8141

  De Saint Denis, Renaud ^a   Passilly, Nicolas ^a   Laroche, Mathieu ^a   Mohammed Brahim, Tayeb ^b   Aït Ameur, Kamel ^a  

^a Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Ions Lasers   (France)

^b IETR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DESIGN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BEAM TAILORING; BINARY DIFFRACTIVE OPTIC; PROPAGATING DISTANCE; TAILORED BEAM;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33845587176     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008136     Document Type: Article

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