Focusing of spatially inhomogeneous partially coherent, partially polarized electromagnetic fields

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

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2470-2479

  Foreman, Matthew R ^a   Török, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOCUSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; COHERENT MODES; ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; FOCUSING SYSTEM; FRESNEL NUMBER; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE SYSTEMS; INCOHERENT SUPERPOSITION; LAGUERRE; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PARTIALLY COHERENT SOURCES; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; SPECTRAL COHERENCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 70449728138     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.002470     Document Type: Article

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