Canonical momentum, angular momentum, and helicity of circularly polarized Airy beams

2020 ◽  
Vol 384 (14) ◽  
pp. 126284
Author(s):  
Yuanfei Hui ◽  
Zhiwei Cui ◽  
Pan Song ◽  
Yiping Han ◽  
Wenjuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Canonical Momentum ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Airy Beams

Angular momentum of Airy beams under diffraction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera M. Petnikova ◽  
Vladimir A. Makarov
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Airy Beams

scholarly journals Strongly Focused Circularly Polarized Optical Vortices Regulated by a Fractal Conical Lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Zhirong Liu ◽  
Kelin Huang ◽  
Anlian Yang ◽  
Xun Wang ◽  
Philip H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Optical Tweezers ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Optical Element ◽  
Optical Vortex ◽  
Optical Vortices ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Strong Focusing ◽  
New Type ◽  
Vortex Beams

In this paper, a recently-proposed pure-phase optical element, the fractal conical lens (FCL), is introduced for the regulation of strongly-focused circularly-polarized optical vortices in a high numerical aperture (NA) optical system. Strong focusing characteristics of circularly polarized optical vortices through a high NA system in cases with and without a FCL are investigated comparatively. Moreover, the conversion between spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of the focused optical vortex in the focal vicinity is also analyzed. Results revealed that a FCL of different stage S could significantly regulate the distributions of tight focusing intensity and angular momentum of the circularly polarized optical vortex. The interesting results obtained here may be advantageous when using a FCL to shape vortex beams or utilizing circularly polarized vortex beams to exploit new-type optical tweezers.

scholarly journals Inverse Faraday effect in a relativistic laser channel

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. KOSTYUKOV ◽  
G. SHVETS ◽  
N.J. FISCH ◽  
J.M. RAX
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Laser Radiation ◽  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Faraday Effect ◽  
Plasma Channel ◽  
Axial Magnetic Field ◽  
Absorbed Energy ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Inverse Faraday Effect

Interaction between energetic electrons and a circularly polarized laser pulse in a relativistic plasma channel is studied. Laser radiation can be resonantly absorbed by electrons executing betatron oscillations in the channel and absorbing angular momentum from the laser. The absorbed angular momentum manifests itself as a strong axial magnetic field (inverse Faraday effect). The magnitude of this magnetic field is calculated and related to the amount of the absorbed energy.

Selectively transporting small chiral particles with circularly polarized Airy beams

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 2086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanli Lu ◽  
Huajin Chen ◽  
Sandong Guo ◽  
Shiyang Liu ◽  
Zhifang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Airy Beams

scholarly journals Inversion of the longitudinal component of spin angular momentum in the focus of a left-handed circularly polarized beam

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 699-706
Author(s):  
A.G. Nalimov ◽  
E.S. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Energy Flow ◽  
Longitudinal Component ◽  
Angular Momentum Vector ◽  
Spin Angular Momentum ◽  
Momentum Vector ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Polarized Beam

It has been shown theoretically and numerically that in the sharp focus of a circularly polarized optical vortex, the longitudinal component of the spin angular momentum vector is inverted. Moreover, if the input light to the optical system is left-hand circularly polarized, it has been shown to be right-hand polarized in the focus near the optical axis. Since this effect occurs near the focus where a backward energy flow takes place, such an inversion of the spin angular momentum can be used to detect the backward energy flow.

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