Nanointerferometric amplitude and phase reconstruction of tightly focused vector beams

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-27

  Bauer, Thomas ^a,b   Orlov, Sergej ^a,b   Peschel, Ulf ^b,c   Banzer, Peter ^a,b   Leuchs, Gerd ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; POLARIZED LIGHT BEAMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

PHOTONICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84891311077     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.289     Document Type: Article

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