Sharper focus for a radially polarized light beam.
By R. Dorn, S. Quabis, Gerd Leuchs. Physical Review Letters, 2003
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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- What spatial light modulators can do for optical microscopy (2011, methodology): “SLMs can also be used to control the vectorial structure of the beam polarization [116].”
- Roadmap on superoscillations (2019, background): “It is well known that radially polarized light can be focused into longitudinally polarized spots of sub-diffraction size [104], and the superposition of radially and azimuthally polarized waves allows flexible shaping of the three-dimensional (3D) profile of the optical field around the focus [105]”
- Efficient coupling of photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence (2007, background): “However, it has been proposed that the combination of an emitter with an axially oriented transition dipole moment [26] and light with a radially polarized doughnut mode would be favorable [27, 28].”
- Optical vortices in fiber (2013, background): “These beams have found several uses, such as realizing super-resolved spots [4], plasmonic nano-focussing [5], single-molecule spectroscopy [6], metal machining [7], and they are considered to be potentially useful for laser-based electron and particle acceleration [8].”
- Roadmap on structured light (2016, methodology): “optical momentum) circulates around them [1, 2].”
- Tailoring of arbitrary optical vector beams (2007, methodology): “There, an additional radial polarization of the doughnut beam promises a significantly increased resolution by providing a perfectly symmetric and sharper focus [4]–[6].”