Focusing of radially and azimuthally polarized beams through a uniaxial crystal

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 469-472

  Yonezawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Kozawa, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FOCUSING; LASER RESONATORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS;

RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; RAY OPTICS; UNIAXIAL CRYSTAL; VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORY;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 41549108862     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.000469     Document Type: Article

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