Magnetic and Electric Transverse Spin Density of Spatially Confined Light
When a beam of light is laterally confined, its field distribution can exhibit points where the local magnetic and electric field vectors spin in a plane containing the propagation direction of the electromagnetic wave. The phenomenon indicates the presence of a nonzero transverse spin density. Here...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021042 |