The dark spots of Arago

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 11860-11873

  Fischer, Pascal ^a   Skelton, Susan E ^a   Leburn, Christopher G ^a   Streuber, Casey T ^b   Wright, Ewan M ^a,b   Dholakia, Kishan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AZIMUTHAL INDEX; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 34648837226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011860     Document Type: Article

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