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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 50, Issue 31, Pages G80-G85Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000G80
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- Beijing Municipal Commission of Education [KM201110772005]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61108047, 60908015]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB935303]
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The high-NA focusing properties of vector vortex beams are studied theoretically and experimentally. The vector vortex beams are generated by space-variant segmented subwavelength metallic gratings first. Then the mathematical expressions for the focused fields are derived based on the vector diffraction theory, and some numerical simulations are presented that show that the focused fields are not dark at the center and the focusing spot size of vector vortex beams with high topological charges approaches the diffraction limitation at high NA. Finally, to verify the theoretical analysis, the tightly focused fields are measured based on a confocal microscopy system when the NA of the objective lens is 0.90. The research results confirm the potential of vector vortex beams in some applications, such as optical trapping, laser printing, lithography, and material processing. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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