Instability of higher-order optical vortices analyzed with a multi-pinhole interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 22961-22975

  Ricci, F ^a   Loffler W ^a   Van Exter, M P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HOLOGRAMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICS;

FAR-FIELD; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MULTIPLE PINHOLES; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE PROFILE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84866650688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.022961     Document Type: Article

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