Focal shift in focused radially polarized ultrashort pulsed laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6251-6255

  Wu, Guohua ^a,b   Lou, Qihong ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Dong, Jingxing ^a   Wei, Yungrong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

APERTURELESS APLANATIC LENS; FRESNEL NUMBER; ULTRASHORT PULSED LASER BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 36148995095     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006251     Document Type: Article

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