{"title":"ANNULAR FOCUSING THROUGH A DIELECTRIC INTERFACE : SCANNING AND CONFINING THE INTENSITY","authors":"S. H. Wiersma, T. Visser, P. Török","doi":"10.1088/0963-9659/7/5/029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We study the problem of light focusing by a high-aperture lens through a planar interface between two media with different refractive indices. It is demonstrated how, by using annular illumination, the intensity distribution can be significantly confined. A new scanning mechanism is proposed to continuously probe the intensity peak through the second medium. This mechanism may be applied in, for example, lithography and three-dimensional imaging.","PeriodicalId":20787,"journal":{"name":"Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of The European Optical Society Part A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of The European Optical Society Part A","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0963-9659/7/5/029","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 14
Abstract
We study the problem of light focusing by a high-aperture lens through a planar interface between two media with different refractive indices. It is demonstrated how, by using annular illumination, the intensity distribution can be significantly confined. A new scanning mechanism is proposed to continuously probe the intensity peak through the second medium. This mechanism may be applied in, for example, lithography and three-dimensional imaging.