Formation of optical vortices using coherent laser beam arrays

Optics Communications

Volumn 282, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1088-1094

  Wang, Li Gang ^a,b   Wang, Li Qin ^a   Zhu, Shi Yao ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; VORTEX FLOW;

HELICITY; HUYGENS FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; PHASE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROPAGATION PROCESS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SUPERPOSITION EFFECTS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 58649117132     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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