Cylindrical vector beam focusing through a dielectric interface

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 490-497

  Biss, D P ^a   Brown, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAMS; IMAGE FORMATION THEORY; LASER BEAM SHAPING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0001542729     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000490     Document Type: Article

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