Propagation of light fields with radial or azimuthal polarization distribution at a transverse plane

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9021-9033

  Martinez Herrero R ^a   Mejias P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; FREE SPACE PROPAGATION; GENERAL EXPRESSION; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; TRANSVERSE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249118272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009021     Document Type: Article

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