Production of high-order Bessel beams with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5060-5063

  López Mariscal, Carlos ^a   Gutiérrez Vega, Julio C ^a   Chávez Cerda, Sabino ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFRACTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BESSEL BEAMS; FOCAL DISTANCES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 4944221355     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005060     Document Type: Article

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