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  • Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XXII/Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics/Optical Fabrication and Testing
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper FTuG13
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2004.FTuG13

The effect of polarization on the focal intensity distribution

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the influence of the vector properties of light by a comparison of the focal intensity distribution for radially and azimuthally polarized input fields. It is shown for the first time that a radially polarized field can be focused to a spot size significantly smaller than for linear polarization.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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