Self-healing of tightly focused scalar and vector Bessel-Gauss beams at the focal plane

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

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 837-843

  Vyas, Sunil ^a   Kozawa, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; RECOVERY;

BEAM SIZE; BESSEL-GAUSS BEAMS; FOCAL PLANE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; POLARIZATION COMPONENTS; POLARIZATION DISTRIBUTIONS; PUPIL PLANES; SELF HEALING EFFECT; SELF-HEALING; SPATIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; TIGHT FOCUSING;

FOCUSING;

EID: 79958844150     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.000837     Document Type: Article

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