• DocumentCode
    733603
  • Title

    Enhanced detection of longitudinal field of a radially polarized beam in confocal laser microscopy

  • Author

    Kozawa, Yuichi ; Sato, Shunichi

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Multidiscipl. Res. for Adv. Mater., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The wave scattered by the longitudinal component of a tightly focused radially polarized beam is clearly detected in a confocal system, which may lead to the enhancement of the spatial resolution in confocal microscopy.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; light polarisation; light scattering; optical focusing; optical microscopy; confocal laser microscopy; confocal system; longitudinal component; longitudinal field detection; spatial resolution; tightly focused radially polarized beam; wave scattering; Detectors; Gold; Laser beams; Lenses; Microscopy; Particle beams; Spatial resolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184044