Focusing of a vortex carrying beam with Gaussian background by a lens in the presence of spherical aberration and defocusing

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 773-782

  Kumar Singh, Rakesh ^a   Senthilkumaran, P ^a   Singh, Kehar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Encircled energy; Intensity distribution; Laguerre Gaussian beam; Spherical aberration; Truncation parameter; Vortex

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LENSES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ENCIRCLED ENERGY; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SPHERICAL ABERRATION; TRUNCATION PARAMETERS;

DIFFRACTION PATTERNS;

EID: 33947583636     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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