The optical vortex lens

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 39-43

  Swartzlander Jr , Grover A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SPIE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; LIGHT MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE); QUANTUM COMPUTING; SHAPE LASER BEAMS; VORTEX LENS;

LENSES;

EID: 33845946999     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.17.11.000039     Document Type: Article

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