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Kelvin's chirality of optical beams

2021; American Physical Society; Volume: 103; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.103.l031501

2469-9942

Sergey Nechayev, Jörg S. Eismann, Rasoul Alaee, Ebrahim Karimi, Robert W. Boyd, Peter Banzer,

Molecular spectroscopy and chirality

In this paper, the authors clarify the physical significance of the two types of chirality that occur in optical beams, namely geometrical chirality (determined by the spatial distribution of the beam) and optical chirality (given by the local handedness of the electromagnetic field vectors). An experiment shows how the two types of chirality couple to each other.