Published June 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

The effect of orbital angular momentum and helicity in the uncertainty-type relations between focal spot size and angular spread

  • 1. Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, FI-00076, Aalto (Finland)
  • 2. The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (United States)

Description

It is well known that, for any monochromatic field, the spatial extent of the focus has a lower bound dependent on the field's directional spread. The influences that the orbital angular momentum and, for vector fields, the (spin or intrinsic) angular momentum due to polarization have on this lower bound are studied here for fields not constrained by the paraxial approximation

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064016

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064016;
PII
S2040-8978(11)78719-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Optics (Online)
Journal Volume
13
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
[9 p.]
ISSN
2040-8986

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45019707
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; HELICITY; MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POLARIZATION; SPIN; VECTOR FIELDS
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CALCULATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS