All-Optical Surface Micropatterning by Electric Field Intensity Gradient

Figure 5

Theoretical light intensity distributions (solid curves) for two coherent beams interference; dashed and dotted curves correspond to the and polarized electric field intensity components, respectively. Intensity of the interfered light unit, Λ-period, angle between the corresponding -vectors , period , and .

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