Angular momentum of light revisited: Spin-orbit interactions in free space

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Bliokh, Konstantin
Alonso, Miguel A
Ostrovskaya, Elena

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SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

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We give an exact self-consistent operator description of the spin and orbital angular momenta, position, and spin-orbit interactions of nonparaxial light in free space. We apply the general theory to symmetric and asymmetric Bessel beams exhibiting spin-

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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

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