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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 185495, 6 pages
Thin Light Tube Formation by Tightly Focused Azimuthally Polarized Light Beams
Image Processing Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Molodogvardeiskaya Street 151, Samara 443001, Russia
Received 21 June 2013; Accepted 14 July 2013
Academic Editors: A. K. Dharmadhikari and D. Poitras
Copyright © 2013 Svetlana N. Khonina and Andrey V. Ustinov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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