Experimental generation of Mathieu-Gauss beams with a phase-only spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 6903-6909

  Hernandez Hernandez R J ^a   Terborg, R A ^a   Ricardez Vargas, I ^a,b   Volke Sepulveda K ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Universidad Politécnica del Centro   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

ANNULAR APERTURES; ARBITRARY ORDER; MATHIEU-GAUSS BEAMS; PHASE-ONLY; PROPAGATION INVARIANCE; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78650642520     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006903     Document Type: Article

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