Petal-like modes in Porro prism resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14065-14077

  Litvin, Igor A ^a,b   Burger, Liesl ^a,c   Forbes, Andrew ^a,c  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRISMS;

PORRO PRISM RESONATORS; SPATIAL INTENSITY; TRANSVERSE FIELD DISTRIBUTION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 35348981898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014065     Document Type: Article

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