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Scattering in focus

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Sustaining the ongoing revolution in optical microscopy will require gaining detailed insight into the optical fields in focal spots. Researchers have developed an elegant method for mapping the full electric vector field using just a metal nanosphere on a glass substrate.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the measurement scheme.
Figure 2: Experimental results and theoretical calculations for a tightly focussed, radially polarized vector beam.

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  1. L. Kuipers is at the Center for Nanophotonics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

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Kuipers, L. Scattering in focus. Nature Photon 8, 9–10 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.356

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