Cylindrical vector beam focusing through a dielectric interface
Open Access
- 5 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 9 (10) , 490-497
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.9.000490
Abstract
Cylindrical vector beams have been proposed and demonstrated for applications ranging from microscopy to high energy physics. In this paper, we analyze the three-dimensional field distributions of radial and azimuthal beams focused near a dielectric interface. We give particular attention to the classic problem of high numerical aperture focusing from an immersion lens to a glass-air interface and find that the use of radially and azimuthally polarized illumination for this type of imaging provides an impressive lateral confinement of the fields over a wide range of interface positions.Keywords
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