Needles of longitudinally polarized light: Guidelines for minimum spot size and tunable axial extent

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 14891-14905

  Dehez, Harold ^a   April, Alexandre ^a   Piché, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEEDLES;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANNULAR BEAMS; APLANATIC LENS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DEPTH OF FOCUS; FOCUSING OPTICS; FOCUSING SYSTEM; FULL WIDTHS AT HALF MAXIMUMS; INCIDENT BEAMS; NARROW ANNULI; NONDIFFRACTING; OPTICAL BEAMS; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SPOT SIZES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL LIMITS; TIGHT FOCUSING;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 84863731330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014891     Document Type: Article

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