Generation of multiterawatt vortex laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn , Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3355-3360

  Ament, Craig ^a   Johnson, Lee ^a   Schmitt Sody, Andreas ^b   Lucero, Adrian ^b   Milster, Thomas ^a   Polynkin, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; LASER BEAMS; SUBSTRATES;

FEMTOSECONDS; FUSED SILICA SUBSTRATES; MASK DEFECTS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE MASKS; VORTEX BEAMS; VORTEX LASER BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84942373796     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.53.003355     Document Type: Article

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