Flattop focusing with full Poincaré beams under low numerical aperture illumination

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1605-1607

  Han, Wei ^a   Cheng, Wen ^a   Zhan, Qiwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM SIZE; FLAT TOP BEAM; FOCUSING CONDITIONS; HALF WAVEPLATE; HIGH QUALITY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; POINCARE; SECOND ORDERS;

EID: 79956317142     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001605     Document Type: Article

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