Nonplanar ring resonator modes: Generalized Gaussian beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2980-2989

  Jie, Yuan ^a   Xingwu, Long ^a   Linmei, Liang ^a   Bin, Zhang ^a   Fei, Wang ^a   Hongchang, Zhao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

CURVATURE MIRRORS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; IMAGE ROTATION; STABILITY MAPS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 34547271130     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002980     Document Type: Article

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