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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
  • Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper IWG3
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/IQEC.2004.IWG3

Radial polarization minimizes focal spot size

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that a radially polarized beam can be focused to a spot size significantly smaller than for linear polarization and that the longitudinal field component arising at focus best coupled to small particles.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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