Local polarization of tightly focused unpolarized light

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 228-231

  Lindfors, Klas ^a   Priimagi, Arri ^a   Setälä, Tero ^a   Shevchenko, Andriy ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^b   Kaivola, Matti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LOCAL POLARIZATION; MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; MOLECULAR TRANSITIONS; PARTIAL POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL;

LIGHT;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 34249903621     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.30     Document Type: Article

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