Sidelobe contrast reduction for optical vortex beams using a helical axicon

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 921-923

  Kotlyar, V V ^a   Kovalev, A A ^a   Soifer, V A ^a   Tuvey, C Stewart ^b   Davis, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a Image Processing Systems Institute Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICAL AXICON; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS; SIDELOBE CONTRAST REDUCTION; SPIRAL PHASE PLATE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33947409080     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000921     Document Type: Article

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