Amplitude damping of Laguerre-Gaussian modes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22789-22795

  Dudley, Angela ^a,b   Nock, Michael ^b   Konrad, Thomas ^b   Roux, Filippus S ^a   Forbes, Andrew ^a,b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING;

AZIMUTHAL INDEX; DAMPING CHANNEL; GAUSSIAN MODES; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODES; ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM STATE; THEORETICAL MODELS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78149387972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022789     Document Type: Article

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