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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

Published on: August 12, 2013

Victor V Kotlyar1, Svetlana N Khonina, Anton A Almazov

  • 1Image Processing Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara State Aerospace University, 151 Molodogvardejskaya, Samara 443001, Russia.

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
|February 16, 2006
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