Angular momentum and geometrical phases in tight-focused circularly polarized plane waves

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Bomzon, Ze'ev ^a,b   Gu, Min ^a   Shamir, Joseph ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; WAVEFRONTS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PLANE WAVES; NUMERICAL APERTURE LENS; SPATIAL FILTERS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 33845736051     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2402909     Document Type: Article

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