Chapter 5 Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities

Progress in Optics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2009, Pages 293-363

  Dennis, Mark R ^a   O'Holleran, Kevin ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67649233261     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6638(08)00205-9     Document Type: Article

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