Near-perfect measuring of full-field transverse-spatial modes of light

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Near-perfect measuring of full-field transverse-spatial modes of light. / Hiekkamäki, Markus; Prabhakar, Shashi; Fickler, Robert.

In: Optics Express, Vol. 27, No. 22, 28.10.2019, p. 31456-31464.

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Hiekkamäki, Markus ; Prabhakar, Shashi ; Fickler, Robert. / Near-perfect measuring of full-field transverse-spatial modes of light. In: Optics Express. 2019 ; Vol. 27, No. 22. pp. 31456-31464.

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