Longitudinal field imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4964, Issue , 2003, Pages 73-83

  Biss, David P ^a   Youngworth, Kathleen S ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cylindrical vector beams; Longitudinal fields; Radial polarization; Second harmonic generation; Surface imaging

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; VECTORS;

LONGITUDINAL FIELDS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0141605370     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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