Direct measurement of a radially polarized focused evanescent field facilitated by a single LCD

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6821-6827

  Jia, Baohua ^a   Gan, Xiaosong ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING;

ANNULAR BEAMS; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; SPLITTING; WAVELENGTHS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 24944509250     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006821     Document Type: Article

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