Method to measure off-axis displacements based on the analysis of the intensity distribution of a vortex beam

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Anzolin, G ^a   Tamburini, F ^a   Bianchini, A ^a   Barbieri, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; HIGH PRECISION; INCIDENT BEAMS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY PROFILES; INTENSITY RATIOS; OFF-AXIS; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES; VORTEX BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 64349105177     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033845     Document Type: Article

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