Design and fabrication of polarization-holographic elements for laser beam shaping

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2669-2677

  Fratz, Markus ^a,b   Sinzinger, Stefan ^b   Giel, Dominik ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION;

AZOBENZENE POLYMERS; DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LASER BEAM SHAPING; LINEARLY POLARIZED;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 67649270498     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002669     Document Type: Article

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