Polarization singularities of focused, radially polarized fields

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5733-5745

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

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LENSES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANNIHILATION; COLLISION; MONSTAR; POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; STAR; SYSTEM PARAMETER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 33745135833     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005733     Document Type: Article

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