Experimental measurement of longitudinal component in the vicinity of focused radially polarized beam

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3550-3556

  Hao, Bing ^a   Leger, James ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTORESISTORS;

FOCAL PATTERN; NON-PROPAGATING LONGITUDINAL COMPONENT;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 33947381768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003550     Document Type: Article

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