Partial spatial coherence and partial polarizationin random evanescent fields on lossless interfaces

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Norrman, Andreas ^a   Setälä, Tero ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^a,b,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHT; NANOPHOTONICS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; DEGREE OF COHERENCE; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; EVANESCENT FIELDS; EVANESCENT WAVE; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; INCOHERENT LIGHT; LOSSLESS; MULTIMODE LASER; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; OPTICAL FIELD; PARTIAL POLARIZATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL FORMULATION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; VACUUM WAVELENGTH;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 79952334615     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.000391     Document Type: Article

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