Vortex sheets in optical and coherence fields

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6905, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Wei ^a   Chiba, Kentaro ^b   Hanson, Steen G ^c   Takeda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coherence vortex sheet; Diffraction free optical and coherence fields; Optical vortex sheet; Surface flow

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

COHERENCE VORTEX SHEET; DIFFRACTION-FREE OPTICAL AND COHERENCE FIELDS; OPTICAL VORTEX SHEETS; SURFACE FLOW;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 43249084681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.765492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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