Ultra long high resolution beam by multi-zone rotationally symmetrical complex pupil filter

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 6409-6413

  Xu, Yingshun ^a,b   Singh, Janak ^b   Sheppard, Colin J R ^a   Chen, Nanguang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

AXIAL DIRECTION; DEPTH OF FOCUS (DOF); PUPIL FILTERS; TRANSVERSE DIRECTION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 34248536313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006409     Document Type: Article

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