Analytical techniques for the study of focused beams

Miguel A. Alonso

doi:10.1117/12.2006248

5 March 2013 Analytical techniques for the study of focused beams

Miguel A. Alonso

Proceedings Volume 8637, Complex Light and Optical Forces VII; 863716 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006248
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The study of nonparaxial fields through the complex focus model is discussed. This model can be used to rep- resent fields with linear, circular, elliptical, radial, azimuthal, and full Poincar´e polarizations. Other interesting beam distributions include nonparaxial Airy-Gauss beams. Further, complete bases are proposed that allow the expansion of arbitrary focused fields. The Mie scattering for any of these fields is given in closed form, for any position of the particle, allowing analytic calculations of the forces and torques. Finally, these analytic expressions lend themselves to the study of the interaction between orbital and spin angular momenta in the nonparaxial regime.

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Miguel A. Alonso "Analytical techniques for the study of focused beams", Proc. SPIE 8637, Complex Light and Optical Forces VII, 863716 (5 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006248

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