Comparative studies of paraxial and nonparaxial vectorial elegant Laguerre-Gaussian beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14865-14871

  Mei, Zhangrong ^a   Gu, Juguan ^a  

^a HUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EVEN- AND ODD-MODE; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; NONPARAXIAL PROPAGATION; NONPARAXIAL REGIMES; PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR; RAYLEIGH-SOMMERFELD FORMULAS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 69049109858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014865     Document Type: Article

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