Hollow vortex beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-146

  Sato, Shunichi ^a,b   Kozawa, Yuichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

HOLLOW BEAMS; INTENSITY PROFILES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; POLARIZED BEAMS; STRONG FOCUSING; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORIES; VORTEX BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 60749131368     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.000142     Document Type: Article

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