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Two different classes of vector beams that have the same paraxial approximation

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Abstract

It is observed that there exist two different classes of vector light beams that have the same first-order paraxial approximation. They are characterized by the axial and transverse orientations of a constant unit vector that comes from the constraint of transversality condition. Their vectorial structures in the nonparaxial regime and angular momentum properties are compared.

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