Partially coherent standard and elegant Laguerre-Gaussian beams of all orders

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22366-22379

  Wang, Fei ^a   Cai, Yangjian ^a   Korotkova, Olga ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ABCD OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; COLLINS INTEGRAL FORMULA; CROSS SPECTRAL DENSITIES; HERMITE GAUSSIAN MODES; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAM; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; STANDARD AND ELEGANT LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 72049110558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022366     Document Type: Article

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