Generation of single-charge optical vortices with an uniaxial crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3424-3429

  Volyar, Alexander ^a,b   Shvedov, Vladlen ^a,b   Fadeyeva, Tatyana ^b   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TAURIDA NATIONAL V I VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MEASUREMENT;

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INCIDENT BEAMS; OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL VORTICES; POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; SINGLE VORTICES; UNIAXIAL CRYSTAL;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 61849156777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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