Generation of optical vortices with an adaptive helical mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1374-1381

  Ghai, Devinder Pal ^a  

^a LASER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MIRRORS; TOPOLOGY;

DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; EXCITATION VOLTAGE; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL VORTICES; REAL TIME; REFLECTIVE DEVICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79958751952     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001374     Document Type: Article

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