Nondiffracting vortex beams with continuous orbital angular momentum order dependence

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Gutiérrez Vega, Julio C ^a   López Mariscal, Carlos ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bessel beams; Fractional calculus; Nondiffracting beams; Optical vortices

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS;

BESSEL BEAMS; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; OPTICAL VORTICES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 41849104144     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/01/015009     Document Type: Article

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