Rotating scale-invariant electromagnetic fields

doi:10.1364/OE.9.000009

Optics Express

Editor: J. H. Eberly
Vol. 9, Iss. 1 — Jul. 2, 2001
pp: 9–15

Rotating scale-invariant electromagnetic fields

Jani Tervo and Jari Pekka Turunen »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 9-15 (2001)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.9.000009

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Abstract

The concept of scalar fields with uniformly rotating intensity distributions and propagation-invariant radial scales is extended to the case of electromagnetic fields with rotating but otherwise propagation-invariant states of polarization. It is shown that the conditions for field rotation are different for scalar and electromagnetic fields and that the electromagentic analysis brings in new aspects such as the possibility that different components of a rotating electromagnetic field can rotate in opposite directions.

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(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(350.5500) Other areas of optics : Propagation

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Original Manuscript: May 8, 2001
Published: July 2, 2001

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Jani Tervo and Jari Pekka Turunen, "Rotating scale-invariant electromagnetic fields," Opt. Express 9, 9-15 (2001)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-9-1-9

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W. D. Montgomery, "Self-imaging objects of infinite aperture," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57 772-778 (1967). [CrossRef]
W. D. Montgomery, "Algebraic formulation of diffraction applied to self imaging," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58 1112-1124 (1968). [CrossRef]
J. Durnin, "Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4 651-654 (1987). [CrossRef]
J. Durnin, J. J. Miceli, Jr., and J. H. Eberly, "Diffraction-free beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 1499-1501 (1987). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Ch�vez-Cerda, G. S. McDonald, and G. H. S. New, "Nondiffracting Beams: travelling, standing, rotating and spiral waves," Opt. Commun. 123 225-233 (1996). [CrossRef]
C. Paterson and R. Smith, "Higher-order Bessel waves produced by axicon-type computer-generated holograms," Opt.Commun. 124 121-130 (1996). [CrossRef]
V. V. Kotlyar, V. A. Soifer and S. N. Khonina, "An algorithm for the generation of laser-beams with longitudinal periodicity," J. Mod. Opt. 44 1409-1416 (1997). [CrossRef]
P. P��kk�nen, J. Lautanen, M. Honkanen, M. Kuittinen, J. Turunen, S. N. Khonina, V. V. Kotlyar, V. A. Soifer and A. T. Friberg, "Rotating optical fields: experimental demonstration with diffractive optics," J. Mod. Opt. 46 2355-2369 (1998). [CrossRef]
S. N. Khonina, S. N., V. V. Kotlyar, V. A. Soifer, J. Lautanen, M. Honkanen, and J. Turunen, "Generating a couple of rotating nondiffracting beams using a binary-phase DOE," Optik 110 137-144 (1999).
S. R. Mishra, "A vector wave analysis of a Bessel beam," Opt. Commun. 85 159-161 (1991). [CrossRef]
J. Turunen and A. T. Friberg, "Self-imaging and propagation-invariance in electromagnetic fields," Pure Appl. Opt. 2 51-60 (1993). [CrossRef]
Z. Bouchal and M. Oliv�k, "Non-diffractive vector Bessel beams," J. Mod. Opt. 8 1555-1566 (1995). [CrossRef]
Z. Bouchal, R. Hor�k and J. Wagner, "Propagation-invariant electromagnetic fields," J. Mod. Opt. 9 1905-1920 (1996). [CrossRef]
L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), sect.3.2.
G. B. Arfken and H. J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists (Academic Press, New York, 2001), p. 681.
H. F. Talbot, "Facts relating to optical science, No. IV," Philos. Mag. 9 401-407 (1836).

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