Analysis of the shape of a subwavelength focal spot for the linearly polarized light

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-339

  Kotlyar, Victor V ^a   Stafeev, Sergey S ^a   Liu, Yikun ^b,c   O'Faolain, Liam ^b   Kovalev, Alexey A ^a  

^a Image Processing Systems Institute Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PLATE METAL; POLARIZATION;

DEPTH OF FOCUS; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; POYNTING VECTORS; SMALL APERTURE;

ALUMINUM COATINGS;

EID: 84873805571     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.000330     Document Type: Article

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