Interferometric optical vortex array generator

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2893-2898

  Vyas, Sunil ^a   Senthilkumaran, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

OPTICAL VORTEX ARRAY GENERATORS; REPULSION FORCES; VORTEX DIPOLE ARRAYS; VORTEX PAIRS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 34547338369     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002893     Document Type: Article

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