Optimal annulus structures of optical vortices

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4625-4634

  Guo, Cheng Shan ^a,b   Liu, Xuan ^b   He, Jing Liang ^b   Wang, Hui Tian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHTING; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; VORTEX FLOW; WAVEFRONTS;

ANNULUS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 6344280888     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004625     Document Type: Article

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