Electromagnetic diffraction of light focused through a planar interface between materials of mismatched refractive indices: An integral representation

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

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 325-332

  Torok, P ^a   Varga, P ^b   Laczik, Z ^a   Booker, G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

ELECTRIC STRENGTH VECTORS; FRESNEL REFRACTION LAW; INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; MAGNETIC STRENGTH VECTORS; NUMERICAL APERTURE LENS; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; WOLFS INTEGRAL FORMULAS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029250090     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.12.000325     Document Type: Article

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