Super-resolution applications using cylindrical vector optical beams

• Main Author: Yuan, Xiaocong.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Research Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14730
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cylindrical vector beams (CYB) are solutions of Maxwell's equations that exhibit axially symmetric polarizations over their cross sections. When focused with a high numerical aperture lens, CYB polarized in the radial direction produces a longitudinal on-axis electric field at the focus plane....