Focal shifts in focused nonuniformly polarized beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2760-2766

  Pu, Jixiong ^a,b   Lü, Baida ^b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

FOCAL SHIFTS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 0010007619     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.002760     Document Type: Article

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