Smallest flattop focus by polarization engineering

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2931-2940

  Hao, Bing ^a   Burch, Jordan ^a   Leger, James ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION;

BEAM SHAPING TECHNIQUE; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; FAR FIELD DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; SPATIAL ENGINEERING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL BEAM SHAPING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 49649127934     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002931     Document Type: Article

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