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Angular spectrum of quantized light beams

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We introduce a generalized angular spectrum representation for quantized light beams. By using our formalism, we are able to derive simple expressions for the electromagnetic vector potential operator in the case of: {a)} time-independent paraxial fields, {b)} time-dependent paraxial fields, and {c)} non-paraxial fields. For the first case, the well known paraxial results are fully recovered.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0509082,
  title  = {Angular spectrum of quantized light beams},
  author = {A. Aiello and J. Visser and G. Nienhuis and J. P. Woerdman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0509082},
  year   = {2009}
}

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