Spin and orbital angular momentum of a class of nonparaxial light beams having a globally defined polarization

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Li, Chun Fang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; ELECTRIC VECTORS; FOCUSED BEAMS; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; JONES VECTOR; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LIGHT BEAM; MOMENTUM DENSITY; NON-PARAXIAL BEAMS; NONPARAXIAL; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARAXIAL; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; RECIPROCAL SPACE; TRANSVERSALITY CONDITIONS; UNIT VECTORS;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; POLARIZATION; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 71849099271     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063814     Document Type: Article

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