Achromatic wavefront forming with space-variant polarizers: Application to phase singularities and light focusing

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ferrari, José A ^a   Dultz, Wolfgang ^b   Schmitzer, Heidrun ^c   Frins, Erna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; VORTEX FLOW; WAVEFRONTS;

ACHROMATIC WAVEFRONT; NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PANCHARATNAM'S PHASE; RADIALLY VARIANT POLARIZATION; SPACE-VARIANT POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 36148984231     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053815     Document Type: Article

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