Focusing of high numerical aperture cylindrical-vector beams

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 77-87

  Youngworth, K S ^a   Brown, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RESONATORS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

IMAGE FORMATION THEORY; LASER BEAM SHAPING; NUMERICAL APERTURES; OPTICAL PHYSICS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0002555168     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000077     Document Type: Article

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