The origin of the Gouy phase anomaly and its generalization to astigmatic wavefields

Optics Communications

Volumn 283, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3371-3375

  Visser, T D ^a,b   Wolf, E ^c,d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE CASE; GOUY PHASE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT RAYS; PHASE CHANGE; SYMMETRY RELATIONS; WAVEFIELDS;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 77953650230     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.04.099     Document Type: Article

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