Global beam shaping with nonuniformly polarized beams using amplitude transmitances;Conformado global de haces totalmente polarizados no-uniformemente mediante transmitancias en amplitud

Optica Pura y Aplicada

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-93

  Ramírez Sánchez, Victoria ^a   Piquero, Gemma ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beam polarization; Beam quality; Beam shaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549083380     PISSN: 00303917     EISSN: 21718814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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