Nonparaxial polarizers

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3160-3162

  Aiello, Andrea ^a   Marquardt, Christoph ^a,b   Leuchs, Gerd ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

LIGHT BEAM; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NONPARAXIAL; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATIONS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; POWER SERIES EXPANSIONS; SPATIAL DERIVATIVES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 70450171532     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003160     Document Type: Article

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