Generation of optical vortices in spun multihelicoidal optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 6125-6129

  Alexeyev, Constantine N ^a  

^a TAURIDA NATIONAL V I VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

COUPLED MODE; OPTICAL VORTICES; PERTURBATION THEORY; SINGULAR BEAMS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; WAVEGUIDE EQUATIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84866329671     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006125     Document Type: Article

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