Micro-step localization using double charge optical vortex interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16144-16159

  Masajada, Jan ^a   Leniec, Monika ^a   Bczyńskidro, Sławomir ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Kress, Bernard ^c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; FOCUSED GAUSSIAN BEAM; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRO-STEPS; OPTICAL VORTEX INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL VORTICES; TRANSPARENT MEDIA; VORTEX SPLIT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 69949083498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016144     Document Type: Article

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