Abstract
Longitudinally-polarized optical needle beam with spot-size 0.48λ and enhanced non-diverging range 40λ is achieved by focusing radially-polarized beam using a high numerical aperture axicon. Also presented are its Poynting vector and degree of polarization distributions.
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