Intra-cavity flat-top beam generation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15891-15903

  Litvin, Igor A ^a,b   Forbes, Andrew ^a,b,c  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; FLAT TOP BEAM; FLATTENED GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GAUSSIANS; INTRACAVITIES; STABLE MODES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 69949085083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015891     Document Type: Article

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