Transverse and longitudinal components of the propagating and evanescent waves associated to radially-polarized nonparaxial fields

A comparison is established between the contributions of transverse and longitudinal components of both the propagating and the evanescent waves associated to freely propagating radially polarized nonparaxial beams. Attention is focused on those fields that remain radially polarized upon propagation...

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Autores: Martínez-Herrero, Rosario, Mejías, Pedro M., Juvells Prades, Ignacio, Carnicer González, Arturo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/43553
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/43553
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Equacions de Maxwell
Electromagnetisme
Polarització (Llum)
Làsers
Propagació d'ones
Maxwell equations
Electromagnetism
Polarization (Light)
Lasers
Wave propagation
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Resumo:A comparison is established between the contributions of transverse and longitudinal components of both the propagating and the evanescent waves associated to freely propagating radially polarized nonparaxial beams. Attention is focused on those fields that remain radially polarized upon propagation. In terms of the plane-wave angular spectrum of these fields, analytical expressions are given for determining both the spatial shape of the above components and their relative weight integrated over the whole transverse plane. The results are applied to two kinds of doughnut-like beams with radial polarization, and we compare the behavior of such fields at two transverse planes.