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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 8331-8341Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008331
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The Gouy phase, sometimes called the focal phase anomaly, is the curious effect that in the vicinity of its focus a diffracted field, compared to a non-diffracted, converging spherical wave of the same frequency, undergoes a rapid phase change by an amount of pi. We theoretically investigate the phase behavior and the polarization ellipse of a strongly focused, radially polarized beam. We find that the significant variation of the state of polarization in the focal region, is a manifestation of the different Gouy phases that the two electric field components undergo. (c) 2013 Optical Society of America
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