Achromatic design for the generation of optical vortices based on radial spiral phase plates

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13599-13605

  Yuan, X C ^a   Lin, J ^b   Bu, J ^a   Burge, R E ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AZIMUTHAL PHASE; CONVENTIONAL SPIRALS; MULTI-ELEMENT; OPTICAL VORTICES; RADIAL DIRECTION; SPECTRUM WIDTH; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICS; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; ROTATION;

EID: 51149091432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013599     Document Type: Article

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