Angular momentum of electromagnetic field in areas of optical singularities

Igor I. Mokhun; Alexander D. Arkhelyuk; Roman O. Brandel; Ju. Viktorovskaya

doi:10.1117/12.558754

4 June 2004 Angular momentum of electromagnetic field in areas of optical singularities

Igor I. Mokhun, Alexander D. Arkhelyuk, Roman O. Brandel, Ju. Viktorovskaya

Proceedings Volume 5477, Sixth International Conference on Correlation Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558754
Event: Sixth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 2003, Chernivsti, Ukraine

Abstract

It is shown that polarization singularities of vector field are connected with the presence or absence of the angular momentum of electromagnetic field. Namely, in the vicinity of C-point the orbital angular momentum is observed, while the spin momentum is indefinite (vanishes) on the s-contour.

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Igor I. Mokhun, Alexander D. Arkhelyuk, Roman O. Brandel, and Ju. Viktorovskaya "Angular momentum of electromagnetic field in areas of optical singularities", Proc. SPIE 5477, Sixth International Conference on Correlation Optics, (4 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558754

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