Accurate paraxial Maxwell beams
Optics
2025-04-01 v1
Abstract
In this work, the paraxial version of Maxwell equations is derived with the use of two Riemann-Silberstein vectors. Exact solutions of these equations are then obtained representing the paraxial electromagnetic fields. These fields satisfy the full Maxwell equations up to the order of . The solutions contain some additional terms, which turn out to be relevant for polarization, especially in the case of beams endowed with orbital angular momentum.
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@article{arxiv.2503.23195,
title = {Accurate paraxial Maxwell beams},
author = {Tomasz Radozycki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23195},
year = {2025}
}
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ReVTeX, 9 pages, 6 figures