Spin and orbital angular momentum propagation in anisotropic media: Theory

Antonio Picón; Albert Benseny; Jordi Mompart; Gabriel F. Calvo

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064019

Spin and orbital angular momentum propagation in anisotropic media: Theory

Antonio Picón, Albert Benseny, Jordi Mompart, Gabriel F. Calvo

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Abstract

This paper is devoted to a study of the propagation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum in optically anisotropic media. We first review some properties of homogeneous anisotropic media, and describe how the paraxial formalism is modified in order to proceed with a new approach dealing with the general setting of paraxial propagation along uniaxial inhomogeneous media. This approach is suitable for describing space-variant optical-axis phase plates. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Original language	English
Article number	064019
Journal	Journal of Optics
Volume	13
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064019
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2011

Keywords

anisotropic media
Laguerre-Gaussian modes
orbital angular momentum of light
Spin angular momentum of light

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