Paraxial beams of spinning light:
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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The conservation of total angular momentum, Eq. (3.42), links the spin Hall effect of light to the transverse Imbert-Fedorov shift.
“The conservation of the total angular momentum, Eq. (3.42), links the spin Hall effect of light to another remarkable phenomenon - the transverse Imbert-Fedorov shift [24,27,99 -118].”
From Geometrodynamics of polarized light: Berry phase and spin Hall effect in a gradient-index medium (2009) · cites this paper as [102]
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Cited by 210
- Authors
- Berry, M. V.
- Corresponding author
- Berry, Michael V.
- ORCID
- Berry, Michael V.
- Venue
- SPIE Proceedings
- Publisher
- SPIE
- Published
- 1998-08-03
- Volume
- 3487
- Pages
- 6-11
- ISSN
- 0277-786X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2044083383
- Cited by
- 210
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.24
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Keywords
- paraxial beams, orbital angular momentum, spin angular momentum, total angular momentum, refractive index gradient, beam propagation
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