Can diffraction provide quantitative information about energy flux in an optical vortex?

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Volke Sepúlveda, Karen ^a   Terborg, Roland Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTEX FLOW; WAVEFRONTS;

ENERGY FLUXES; HELICAL WAVE FRONTS; OPTICAL VORTICES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SIMPLE METHOD; SINGLE-SLIT APERTURE; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 85087596009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/fio.2011.jtua38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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