Generation and tight focusing of hybridly polarized vector beams

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27650-27657

  Lerman, Gilad M ^a   Stern, Liron ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

3D ORIENTATION; ATOMIC SYSTEM; ENERGY DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FOCAL PLANE; HIGH NA; HYBRID BEAM; PARTICLE ORIENTATION; POINCARE; POLARIZATION DISTRIBUTIONS; POLARIZED BEAMS; POLARIZED LIGHT; TIGHT FOCUSING; WAVEPLATES;

SPHERES;

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

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

EID: 78650609951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027650     Document Type: Article

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