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Generation and tight-focusing properties of cylindrical vector circular Airy beams

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Tight-focusing properties of cylindrical vector circular Airy beams [i.e., azimuthally polarized (AP) circular Airy beam and radially polarized (RP) circular Airy beam] passing through a high numerical aperture thin lens are investigated in detail. It is found that a super long subwavelength dark channel with full width at half maximum about 0.49λ and depth of focus (DOF) about 52λ can be achieved near the focal region for the case of tight focusing of an AP circular Airy beam, and a super long needle with DOF about 27.5λ of strong longitudinally polarized field can be obtained near the focal region for the case of tight focusing of a RP circular Airy beam. Furthermore, we report experimental generation of an AP circular Airy. Our results will be useful for atom guiding and trapping, particle acceleration and fluorescent imaging.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11104195, 11274005, 11374222 and 11304204, the Universities Natural Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province under Grant 11KJB140007, the project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, the National Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China under Grant No. LQ13A040003, and the project sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.

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Wang, F., Zhao, C., Dong, Y. et al. Generation and tight-focusing properties of cylindrical vector circular Airy beams. Appl. Phys. B 117, 905–913 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5908-9

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