Tight focusing of elliptically polarized vortex beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1288-1294

  Chen, Baosuan ^a   Pu, Jixiong ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FOCUSING;

DEBYE THEORY; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; TIGHT FOCUSING; VORTEX BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 63049122667     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001288     Document Type: Article

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