Generation and evolution of the terahertz vortex beam

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 20230-20239

  He, Jingwen ^a,b   Wang, Xinke ^a   Hu, Dan ^a,b   Ye, Jiasheng ^a   Feng, Shengfei ^a   Kan, Qiang ^c   Zhang, Yan ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; FAR-FIELD PROPAGATION; HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGING; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODES; OPTICAL VORTICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TOPOLOGICAL NUMBER; VORTEX PHASE PLATES;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84883259838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.020230     Document Type: Article

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