Stress birefringent, space-variant wave plates for vortex illumination

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-66

  Spilman, Alexis K ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHTING; WAVE EFFECTS;

ANNULAR REGION; SYMMETRIC STRESS PATTERN; VORTEX ILLUMINATION; WAVE PLATES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 33846855780     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000061     Document Type: Article

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