Focal shift in vector Mathieu-Gauss beams

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5838-5848

  Hernandez Aranda, Raul I ^a   Gutiérrez Vega, Julio C ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

FOCAL SHIFT; MATHIEU-GAUSS BEAMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION; VECTOR MATHIEU-GAUSS BEAMS (VMG);

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 42149169094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005838     Document Type: Article

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