Focusing characteristics of a planar solid-immersion mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1785-1793

  Peng, Chubing ^a   Mihalcea, Christophe ^a   Pelhos, Kalman ^a   Challener, William A ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA;

DIFFRACTION-LIMITED FOCUS; ILLUMINATION BEAM; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; SOLID-IMMERSION MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33645788380     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001785     Document Type: Review

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