Focus shaping using cylindrical vector beams

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 324-331

  Zhan, Qiwen ^a   Leger, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; LASER BEAMS; LITHOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POLARIZATION;

IMAGING FORMATION THEORY; LASER BEAM SHAPING; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT AND MANIPULATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037852583     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000324     Document Type: Article

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