Grating-based optical scheme for the universal generation of inhomogeneously polarized laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1734-1738

  Khonina, Svetlana N ^a   Karpeev, Sergey V ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT;

AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; LINEARLY POLARIZED LASERS; MODE PATTERNS; OPTICAL SCHEME; PHASE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; POLARIZED LASER BEAMS; TRANSVERSE MODE;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 77955638566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001734     Document Type: Article

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