Generation and analysis of both in-phase and out-phase radially polarized femtosecond-pulse beam

Optical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Qi, Junli ^a,b   Sun, Wenchao ^a   Liao, Jiali ^a   Nie, Yongming ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Liu, Xishun ^a   Jia, Hui ^a   Lu, Min ^a   Chen, Shaorong ^a   Liu, Ju ^a   Yang, Jiankun ^a   Tan, Jichun ^a   Li, Xiujian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Army Officer Academy   (China)

Author keywords

Laser beam shaping; Spatial light modulators; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LASER BEAM SHAPING; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; POLARIZED COMPONENTS; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TEMPORAL DURATIONS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 84879559923     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.52.2.024201     Document Type: Article

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