Single-slit diffraction of an optical beam with phase singularity

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-126

  Ghai, Devinder Pal ^a,b   Senthilkumaran, P ^a   Sirohi, R S ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b LASER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (India)

^c AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Interference; Optical phase singularity

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

A PLANES; AZIMUTHAL PHASE; INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL PHASE SINGULARITY; PHASE SINGULARITIES; SINGULAR BEAMS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 56749107240     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

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