Sharp focusing of radially polarized light with microlenses

Computer Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-167

  Kotlyar, Victor Victorovich ^a,b   Kovalev, Alexey Andreevich ^a,b   Stafeev, Sergey Sergeevich ^b  

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

^b SAMARA NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conical microaxicon; Michaelian lens; Minimal area of focal spot; Radial FDTD method; Radially polarized light; Sharp focusing of light

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROLENSES;

AIRY DISKS; CONICAL MICROAXICON; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FOCAL SPOT; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; RADIALLY POLARIZED; RADIALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAM; SUPER RESOLUTION;

FOCUSING;

EID: 84986891731     PISSN: 01342452     EISSN: 24126179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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