The structure of focused, radially polarized fields

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3030-3038

  Diehl, D W ^a   Schoonover, R W ^b   Visser, T D ^b  

^a ASE Optics Inc   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

APERTURE ANGLE; ELECTRIC ENERGY DENSITY; FOCAL PLANE; POLARIZED FIELDS; RADIAL DISTANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 33645529876     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003030     Document Type: Review

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