Propagation of obstructed bessel and bessel-gauss beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7062, Issue , 2008, Pages 706218-

  Litvin, Igor A ^a,b   McLaren, Melanie G ^a,c   Forbes, Andrew ^a,d  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bessel gauss beams; Conical waves; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESTORATION;

BESSEL BEAMS; BESSEL-GAUSS BEAMS; CONICAL WAVES; EFFICIENT METHODS; FREE PROPAGATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SELF-RECONSTRUCTION PROPERTIES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 57549104351     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.793695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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