Propagation of spatial correlation vortices

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 915-922

  Maleev, I D ^a   Swartzlander Jr , G A ^b  

^a KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; LOW-COHERENCE; MUTUAL COHERENCE FUNCTION; OPTICAL VORTICES; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PHASE SINGULARITIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; VORTEX POSITION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 50449086091     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000915     Document Type: Article

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