Improvement of lens axicon's performance for longitudinally polarized beam generation by adding a dedicated phase transmittance

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 26799-26805

  Rajesh, K B ^a   Jaroszewicz, Z ^b   Anbarasan, P M ^c  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED OPTICS   (Poland)

^c PERIYAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DEPTH OF FOCUS; FOCAL FIELDS; GAUSSIANS; HIGH NA; INPUT FIELD; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; POLARIZED BEAMS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORY;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

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

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

EID: 78650529901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026799     Document Type: Article

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