Sharp focus area of radially-polarized Gaussian beam propagation through an axicon

Progress In Electromagnetics Research C

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 35-43

  Kotlyar, V V ^a   Kovalev, A A ^a   Stafeev, S S ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; FOCAL SPOT; NUMERICAL APERTURE; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SHARP FOCUS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 77955647114     PISSN: 19378718     EISSN: 15309681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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