Diffractive optical elements for beam shaping of monochromatic spatially incoherent light

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 8440-8447

  Liu, J S ^a   Caley, A J ^a   Taghizadeh, M R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; MASKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE); SIDELOBE INTENSITY; SIGNAL WINDOW;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33847054776     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008440     Document Type: Article

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