Paraxial beams of spinning light

Michael V. Berry

doi:10.1117/12.317704

3 August 1998 Paraxial beams of spinning light

Michael V. Berry

Proceedings Volume 3487, International Conference on Singular Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317704
Event: International Conference on Singular Optics, 1997, Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine

Abstract

A simple derivation is given for the known result that the component of total angular momentum along the propagation direction of a general paraxial beam can be separated into orbital and spin parts. Comments are made about orbital angular momentum and wave dislocations, and about how the orbital and spin angular momentum can be changed by propagation in a refracting medium.

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Michael V. Berry "Paraxial beams of spinning light", Proc. SPIE 3487, International Conference on Singular Optics, (3 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317704

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