Characterization of hard edge diffracted beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2870, Issue , 1996, Pages 123-132

  Maestle, R ^a   Giesen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABCD propagation rules; Beam width definition; Hard edge diffraction; Truncated second order moments

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LIQUEFIED GASES;

BEAM WIDTHS; CONSISTENCY TESTS; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; EDGE DIFFRACTION; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; PROPAGATION RULE; SECOND ORDER MOMENT;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 85077781085     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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