Optical vortex discrimination with a transmission volume hologram

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gruneisen, Mark T ^a   Dymale, Raymond C ^b   Stoltenberg, Kurt E ^b   Steinhoff, Nicholas ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; ANGULAR SPECTRA; DETUNINGS; FINITE APERTURE; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGHER ORDER; IRRADIANCE PROFILES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MODE DISCRIMINATION; MODE NUMBER; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; PHOTO-THERMO-REFRACTIVE GLASS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; THICK HOLOGRAM; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; VOLUME HOLOGRAMS; VORTEX MODE;

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LITHIUM; LITHOGRAPHY; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

HOLOGRAMS;

EID: 80052485128     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/083030     Document Type: Article

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