Adjustable diffractive spiral phase plates

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 413-421

  Harm, Walter ^a   Bernet, Stefan ^a   Ritsch Marte, Monika ^a   Harder, Irina ^b   Lindlein, Norbert ^c  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

CONJUGATE STRUCTURES; DIFFRACTIVE ELEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; GRAY SCALE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; JOINT TRANSMISSIONS; LAGUERRE GAUSS BEAMS; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 84937197083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.000413     Document Type: Article

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