Design of cylindrical vector beams based on the rotating Glan polarizing prism

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7343-7353

  Hu, Qi ^a   Tan, Zhihua ^a   Weng, Xiaoyu ^a   Guo, Hanming ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Zhuang, Songlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED BEAM; CYLINDRICAL POLARIZATION; CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAM; CYLINDRICALLY POLARIZED; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PARTICLE MANIPULATION;

PRISMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84875697719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007343     Document Type: Article

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