Generation of vortex beams from lasers with controlled Hermite- And Ince-Gaussian modes

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 5082-5094

  Ohtomo, Takayuki ^a   Chu, Shu Chun ^b   Otsuka, Kenju ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ASTIGMATIC MODE CONVERTER; LASER DIODE PUMPING; MICROCHIP SEMISPHERICAL CAVITY; VORTEX BEAMS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41649098375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005082     Document Type: Article

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