Tunable Bessel light modes: Engineering the axial propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15558-15570

  Čižmár, Tomáš ^a   Dholakia, Kishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

AXIAL INTENSITY; AXIAL PROPAGATION; BESSEL BEAM; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 69949102906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015558     Document Type: Article

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