ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM AND NONPARAXIAL LIGHT-BEAMS

被引:377
作者
BARNETT, SM [1 ]
ALLEN, L [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ESSEX,DEPT PHYS,COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ,ESSEX,ENGLAND
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10.1016/0030-4018(94)90269-0
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The simple relationship between total angular momentum and energy and the seemingly natural separation of the angular momentum into spin and orbital components in the paraxial approximation, are investigated for a general nonparaxial form of monochromatic beam with near cylindrical symmetry.
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