Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 7, 072901(2011)

Influence of incident light polarization on photonic nanojet

Yong Liu1,2, Baoyong Wang1, and Zhihua Ding1
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  • 1State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China
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    Dielectric microspheres can confine light in a three-dimensional (3D) region called photonic nanojet is shown when they are illuminated by different polarized beams. The influence of incident light polarization on photonic nanojet using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is demostrated. The axial field intensity profiles of photonic nanojets for both the linear and circular polarization incident beams are very similar. Azimuthal polarization incident beam induces a doughnut beam along the optical axis, while the radial polarization incident beam permits one to reach an effective volume as small as 0.7(\lambda/n)3.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Scattering

    Received: Dec. 15, 2010

    Accepted: Jan. 28, 2011

    Published Online: May. 18, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.072901

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