Composite vortices of displaced Laguerre-Gauss beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7227, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kalb, Daniel M ^a   Galvez, Enrique J ^a  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Laguerre gauss beams; Optical vortices; Singular optics

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; IN-BETWEEN; LAGUERRE GAUSS BEAMS; NET CHARGES; OPTICAL VORTICES; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; RICH STRUCTURES; SINGULAR OPTICS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TWO BEAMS; TWO COMPONENTS; VORTEX PATTERNS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LIGHT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 63449101844     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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