Vortex array generation by interference of spherical waves

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 7862-7867

  Vyas, Sunil ^a   Senthilkumaran, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; VORTEX FLOW;

MACH-ZEHNDER CONFIGURATION; PLANE WAVES; VORTEX LATTICES;

WAVE INTERFERENCE;

EID: 38849098939     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007862     Document Type: Article

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