Narrowband reflective generation of higher-order optical vortices in Bragg spun optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 433-438

  Alexeyev, Constantine N ^a  

^a TAURIDA NATIONAL V I VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

HIGHER-ORDER; NARROW BANDS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PROFILE FUNCTIONS; REFLECTED FIELDS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL RANGE; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84873867236     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.000433     Document Type: Article

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