Redistributing the energy flow of tightly focused ellipticity-variant vector optical fields

Xu-Zhen Gao; Yue Pan; Guan-Lin Zhang; Meng-Dan Zhao; Zhi-Cheng Ren; Chen-Ghou Tu; Yong-Nan Li; Hui-Tian Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000640

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 640(2017)

Redistributing the energy flow of tightly focused ellipticity-variant vector optical fields

Xu-Zhen Gao¹, Yue Pan¹, Guan-Lin Zhang¹, Meng-Dan Zhao¹, Zhi-Cheng Ren¹, Chen-Ghou Tu¹, Yong-Nan Li^1,2, and Hui-Tian Wang^1,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²e-mail: liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn

³National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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Category: Physical Optics

Received: Jun. 27, 2017

Accepted: Sep. 15, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Hui-Tian Wang (htwang@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000640

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