Higher-order vector beams produced by photonic-crystal lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 11963-11968

  Iwahashi, Seita ^a   Kurosaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Sakai, Kyosuke ^a   Kitamura, Kyoko ^a   Takayama, Naoki ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY MODE; FABRICATED DEVICE; HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; HIGHER ORDER; LASER PROCESSING; LATTICE STRUCTURES; OPTICALTRAPPING; POLARIZATION STATE; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

VECTORS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 79959412848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011963     Document Type: Article

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