Modal decomposition without a priori scale information

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27866-27873

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Ngcobo, Sandile ^b,c   Duparré, Michael ^a   Forbes, Andrew ^b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODES; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; MODAL EXPANSION; OPTICAL FIELD; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL SCALE;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DECOMPOSITION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84870594410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027866     Document Type: Article

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