Experimental investigation of the performance of an annular aperture and a circular aperture on the same very-small-aperture laser facet

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6449-6453

  Gai, Hongfeng ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Tian, Qian ^a   Xia, Wei ^b   Xu, Xiangang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHTING;

CIRCULAR APERTURE; NANOMETRIC ANNULAR APERTURE; VERY-SMALL-APERTURE LASER (VSAL);

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 36148980073     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006449     Document Type: Article

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