Developing the refractive light beam shapers as lossless apodization systems suppressing the side-lobes in Fourier transform optical systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Laskin, Alexander ^a   Shcherbakov, Alexandre S ^b   Molchanov, Vladimir ^c   Laskin, Vadim ^a   Makarov, Oleg ^c  

^a AdlOptica GmbH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beam Shaping; flattop; Gaussian; Gaussian apodization; suppressing side lobes

Indexed keywords

APODIZATIONS; BEAM SHAPERS; BEAM-SHAPING; COLLIMATED BEAMS; CONTROL MANNERS; DIRECT IMAGING; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; FIELD MAPPING; FLATTOP; GAUSSIANS; IMAGE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PLANE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY PROFILES; LIGHT BEAM; LOSSLESS; LOW DIVERGENCE; MULTI-CHANNEL; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OPTICAL BEAMS; SIDE LOBES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; UNIFORM INTENSITY;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 84857663097     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.901944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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