Generation of radially polarized beam with a segmented spiral varying retarder

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15694-15699

  Lai, W J ^a   Lim, B C ^b,c   Phua, P B ^a,d   Tiaw, K S ^b   Teo, H H ^b,c   Hong, M H ^b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BIREFRINGENCE; DRY ETCHING; POLARIZATION; SLOW LIGHT;

CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAM; DRY ETCHING PROCESS; FAR FIELD DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE; LINEARLY POLARIZED; QUARTER WAVEPLATES; RADIALLY POLARIZED; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

BARIUM; BORON; SILICON;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BARIUM; BIREFRINGENCE; BORON; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 54749143265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015694     Document Type: Article

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