Axial Angular Momentum of Bessel Light

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  • Mazen Nairat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v10i1.787

Abstract

Both linear and angular momentum densities of Bessel, Gaussian-Bessel, and Hankel-Bessel lasers are determined. Angular momentum of the three Bessel beams is illustrated at linear and circular polarization. Axial Angular momentum is resolved in particular interpretation: the harmonic order of the physical light momentum.

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2018-03-31

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M. Nairat, “Axial Angular Momentum of Bessel Light”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 23–25, Mar. 2018.

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018)

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