Improving the recording ability of a near-field optical storage system by higher-order radially polarized beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3698-3706

  Zhang, Yaoju ^a   Bai, Jianping ^b  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RECORDING;

BEAM FOCUSING; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL STORAGE; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL RECORDING; RADIALLY POLARIZED; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SOLID IMMERSION LENS;

LENSES;

EID: 61549132047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003698     Document Type: Article

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