High quality quasi-Bessel beam generated by round-tip axicon

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12688-12700

  Brzobohatý, Oto ^a   Čižmár, Tomáš ^a   Zemánek, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; MODULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BEAM DISTRIBUTION; BEAM INTENSITY; EFFICIENT NUMERICAL METHOD; HANKEL TRANSFORMATION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; SPATIAL FILTRATION; SPATIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

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

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

EID: 50149112687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012688     Document Type: Article

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