Global beam shaping with nonuniformly polarized beams: A proposal

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8902-8906

  Ramirez Sanchez V ^a   Piquero, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GLOBAL BEAM SHAPING; KURTOSIS PARAMETERS; SPATIAL PARAMETERS;

LIGHT;

EID: 33846186012     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008902     Document Type: Article

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