Fiber microaxicons fabricated by a polishing technique for the generation of Bessel-like beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 8061-8067

  Grosjean, Thierry ^a   Saleh, Said Sadat ^a   Suarez, Miguel Angel ^a   Ibrahim, Idriss Abdoulkader ^a   Piquerey, Vincent ^a   Charraut, Daniel ^a   Sandoz, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; LIGHT; POLISHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; BESSEL-LIKE BEAMS; FIBER MICROAXICONS; INCIDENT FIBER MODES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 38849104380     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008061     Document Type: Article

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