Diffraction characteristics of a fresnel zone plate illuminated by 10 fs laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 8541-8546

  Zhang, HaiFeng ^a   Li, JianChao ^a   Doerr, David W ^a   Alexander, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOCAL WIDTH; FRESNEL ZONE PLATE; SPECTRAL MODULATION;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 33847043578     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008541     Document Type: Article

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