Bessel-like beam generation by superposing multiple Airy beams

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7356-7364

  Hwang, Chi Young ^a   Kim, Kyoung Youm ^b   Lee, Byoungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS;

BEAM GENERATION; INITIAL POSITION; NONDIFFRACTING BEAM; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POWER FLOWS; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS;

EID: 79953893356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007356     Document Type: Article

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