Effect of radial polarization and apodization on spot size under tight focusing conditions

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4567-4581

  Lerman, Gilad M ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LENSES; LIGHTING;

NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); SPOT SIZE REDUCTION;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41649104875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004567     Document Type: Article

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