On diffraction within a dielectric medium as an example of the Minkowski formulation of optical momentum

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20864-20868

  Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; MOMENTUM;

DIELECTRIC MEDIUM; FREE-SPACE VALUES; IT SUPPORTS; MINKOWSKI; OPTICAL PHYSICS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349084751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020864     Document Type: Article

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