Focusing of a singular beam in the presence of spherical aberration and defocusing

Optik

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 459-464

  Singh, Rakesh Kumar ^a   Senthilkumaran, P ^a   Singh, Kehar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Defocusing; Diffraction; Intensity distribution; Singular beam; Spherical aberration

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICS;

DEFOCUSING; ELSEVIER (CO); ENCIRCLED-ENERGY (EE); FRESNEL KIRCHHOFF DIFFRACTION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; OBSERVATION PLANES; OPTICAL TRANSFER; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 45849116931     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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