Arbitrary accelerating micron-scale caustic beams in two and three dimensions

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16455-16465

  Froehly, L ^a   Courvoisier, F ^a   Mathis, A ^a   Jacquot, M ^a   Furfaro, L ^a   Giust, R ^a   Lacourt, P A ^a   Dudley, J M ^a  

^a FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FEMTOSECOND MICROMACHINING; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; LEGENDRE TRANSFORMS; MATERIAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; MICRON SCALE; PARABOLIC PROFILES; PHASE CALCULATION; PHASE PROFILE; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANSVERSE DIMENSIONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 80051766478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016455     Document Type: Article

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