Tighter focusing with a parabolic mirror

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 681-683

  Stadler, J ^a   Stanciu, C ^a   Stupperich, C ^b   Meixner, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); PARABOLIC MIRRORS;

DIFFRACTION; LASER RADIATION; POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

MIRRORS;

EID: 42449127849     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.000681     Document Type: Article

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