New scanning technique for the optical vortex microscope

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Augustyniak, Ireneusz ^a   Popiolłek Masajada, Agnieszka ^a   Masajada, Jan ^a   Drobczyński, Slławomir ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; OBJECT DETECTION; SCANNING; VORTEX FLOW;

FOCUSED GAUSSIAN BEAM; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL VORTICES; SCANNING TECHNIQUES;

LENSES;

EID: 84859364833     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.00C117     Document Type: Article

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