Creation of a needle of longitudinally polarized light in vacuum using binary optics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 501-505

  Wang, Haifeng ^a   Shi, Luping ^a   Luk̀yanchuk, Boris ^a   Sheppard, Colin ^b   Chong, Chong Tow ^a,b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL-GAUSSIAN BEAM; FLUORESCENT IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; LONGITUDINAL FIELDS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; POLARIZATION FILTERS; RADIALLY POLARIZED;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

LENSES;

EID: 48849100532     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.127     Document Type: Article

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