Tight focusing of radially and azimuthally polarized vortex beams through a uniaxial birefringent crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1963-1967

  Zhiming, Zhang ^a,b   Jixiong, Pu ^a   Xiqing, Wang ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; POLARIZATION; VORTEX FLOW;

BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; CONTOUR PLOT; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; STREHL RATIO; TIGHT FOCUSING; VORTEX BEAMS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 61849114025     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001963     Document Type: Article

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