Generation of high-order optical vortices using directly machined spiral phase mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 873-876

  Campbell, Geoff ^a   Hage, Boris ^a   Buchler, Ben ^a   Lam, Ping Koy ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS;

DIAMOND TOOL; DIRECT MACHINING; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-PRECISION; LARGE DIAMETER; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICAL VORTICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84857884328     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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