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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

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Comparative studies of paraxial and nonparaxial vectorial elegant Laguerre-Gaussian beams

Zhangrong Mei1, Juguan Gu

  • 1Department of Physics, Huzhou Teachers College, Huzhou 313000, China. meizhangrong@yahoo.com

Optics Express
|August 19, 2009
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