Design of high-performance supersphere solid immersion lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4540-4546

  Zhang, Yaoju ^a  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SUPERSPHERE SOLID IMMERSION LENSES (HPSILS); NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL DATA; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORY;

LENSES;

EID: 33746162457     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004540     Document Type: Article

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