Tight focusing of partially coherent and circularly polarized vortex beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 862-869

  Baosuan, Chen ^a   Zhiming, Zhang ^a   Jixiong, Pu ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; VORTEX FLOW;

CIRCULAR POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; DEBYE THEORIES; FLAT TOP BEAMS; FOCAL REGIONS; NUMERICAL APERTURES; NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PARTIALLY COHERENT VORTEX BEAMS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; SOURCE COHERENCES; TIGHT FOCUSING; VORTEX BEAMS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 65249102734     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.000862     Document Type: Article

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