Focusing and spectral characteristics of periodic diffractive optical elements with circular symmetry under femtosecond pulsed illumination

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3600-3605

  Mendoza Yero, Omel ^a   Mínguez Vega, Gladys ^a   Lancis, Jesús ^a   Climent, Vicent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LIGHTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVELENGTH;

CIRCULAR SYMMETRIC HARD APERTURE; FEMTOSECOND PULSED ILLUMINATION; PERIODIC DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

EID: 37549051321     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.003600     Document Type: Article

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