Generation of optical vortex beams by nonlinear wave mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17619-17624

  Bahabad, Alon ^a   Arie, Ady ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COUNTER-ROTATING; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 37549070771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017619     Document Type: Article

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