Cylindrical vector beam generation from spun fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7227, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sztul, Henry I ^a   Nolan, Daniel A ^b   Milione, Giovanni ^a   Chen, Xi ^b   Koh, Joohyun ^b   Alfano, Robert R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Sullivan Park ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Angular momentum of light; Vector beams

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT; BIO-PHOTONICS; CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAMS; LASER PROCESSING; MODE CONVERSIONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS; POLARIZATION STATE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES; SPUN FIBERS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SPINNING (FIBERS);

VECTORS;

EID: 63449121884     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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