Beam shaping of focused partially coherent beams by use of the spatial coherence effect

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 28, 2004, Pages 5281-5286

  Pu, Jixiong ^a   Nemoto, Shojiro ^b   Liu, Xiaoyun ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRAPH THEORY; HEAT TREATMENT; HOLOGRAMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

BEAM SHAPING; FOCAL LENGTH; GAUSSIAN INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MATERIAL PROCESSING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 5444254039     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005281     Document Type: Article

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