Focusing of a femtosecond vortex light pulse through a high numerical aperture objective

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10822-10827

  Chen, Baosuan ^a   Pu, Jixiong ^a   Korotkova, Olga ^b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FOCUSING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

FEMTOSECONDS; FOCUSED FIELDS; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE OBJECTIVE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; TIGHT FOCUSING; VECTORIAL DIFFRACTION; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; VORTEX LIGHT;

LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952734306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010822     Document Type: Article

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