Azimuthal decomposition with digital holograms

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10996-11004

  Litvin, Igor A ^a   Dudley, Angela ^a,b   Roux, Filippus S ^a   Forbes, Andrew ^a,b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HOLOGRAMS;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; BESSEL BEAM; DIGITAL HOLOGRAMS; HERMITE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL FIELD; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SIMPLE APPROACH;

DECOMPOSITION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AUTOMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861133849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010996     Document Type: Article

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