Optical data storage system with a planoellipsoidal solid immersion mirror illuminated directly by a point light source

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8653-8658

  Zhang, Yaoju ^a  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTION; LENSES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

APERTURES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PLANOELLIPSOIDAL (PE); SOLID IMMERSION MIRROR (SIM);

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 33846551795     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008653     Document Type: Article

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