TY - JOUR
T1 - Manifestation of the Gouy phase in strongly focused, radially polarized beams
AU - Pang, X.Y.
AU - Visser, T.D.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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 π . 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. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
AB - 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 π . 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. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
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U2 - 10.1364/OE.21.008331
DO - 10.1364/OE.21.008331
M3 - Article
SN - 1094-4087
VL - 21
SP - 8331
EP - 8341
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
IS - 7
ER -
