Wavefront and caustic surfaces of refractive laser beam shaper

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6668, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shealy, David L ^a   Hoffnagle, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caustics; Geometrical optics; Laser beam shaping; Wavefront

Indexed keywords

ASPHERIC LENS; CAUSTIC SURFACES; KEPLERIAN CONFIGURATION; LASER BEAM SHAPING;

ASPHERICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEFRONTS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 42149150361     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.737017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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