Abstract
The smallest spot sizes are reached by focusing an annular shaped light beam with a high aperture lens. We show theoretically that the focal area is further reduced when using a novel radially polarized instead of a linearly polarized light annulus. In the vicinity of the focus there is a large longitudinally polarized field component [1]which is still narrower and has no pronounced side lobes. A special photosensitive layer prepared to be sensitive only to this longitudinal field component may be used to reach an even smaller focal area, 0.1 λ 2, which is determined by the contour of the intensity distribution at half the maximum value. The radially polarized doughnut mode may also be used to build improved near field sensors having a substantially increased brightness.
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