Demonstration and selection of a single-transverse higher-order-mode beam with radial polarization

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 399-403

  Kozawa, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

HIGHER ORDER; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; MULTIPLE RING; ND : YAG LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MIRROR; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 77949547365     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000399     Document Type: Article

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