Generation of sub-diffraction-limited pure longitudinal magnetization by the inverse Faraday effect by tightly focusing an azimuthally polarized vortex beam

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2957-2960

  Jiang, Yunshan ^a,b   Li, Xiangping ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICALLY POLARIZED; FOCAL PLANE; INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS; INVERSE FARADAY EFFECTS; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL VORTICES; POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; VORTEX BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION; FARADAY EFFECT; POLARIZATION; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 84882253424     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.002957     Document Type: Article

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