Generation of supercontinuum bottle beam using an axicon

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2940-2946

  Lin, Ja Hon ^a   Wei, Ming Dar ^b   Liang, Hui Hung ^c   Lin, Kuei Huei ^d   Hsieh, Wen Feng ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH;

BEAM PROFILERS; SUPERCONTINUUM LASER BEAMS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 33947385360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002940     Document Type: Article

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