Shifting the spherical focus of a 4Pi focusing system

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 673-678

  Yan, Shaohui ^a   Yao, Baoli ^a   Rupp, Romano ^b  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHASE MODULATION; SPHERES;

FOCAL SPOT; FOCUSING SYSTEM; INPUT FIELD; MODULATION FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL AXIS; PLANE WAVE; PUPIL PLANES; RADIALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAM; SPHERICAL WAVE EXPANSION; TRAPPED PARTICLE;

FOCUSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78751529746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000673     Document Type: Article

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