Published June 2011
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Journal article
The effect of orbital angular momentum and helicity in the uncertainty-type relations between focal spot size and angular spread
Creators
- 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/10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064016Additional 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