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Self-imaging and propagation-invariance in electromagnetic fields

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In this article, a unified theory of self-imaging and propagation invariance of three-dimensional electromagnetic fields is presented, and the properties of certain radially symmetric fields and fields with a plane-polarized electric vector are investigated to illustrate the general formalism.
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We present a unified theory of self-imaging and propagation-invariance of three-dimensional electromagnetic fields The properties of certain radially symmetric fields and fields with a plane-polarized electric vector are investigated to illustrate the general formalism

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Propagation-Invariant Optical Fields

TL;DR: In this paper, Turunen and Friberg dealt with a class of fields with propagation-invariant properties such as the optical intensity distribution and applied them to scalar and electromagnetic approaches.
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On the concept of “tractor beams”

TL;DR: It is demonstrated the existence of a class of optical beams where the nonconservative forces can be locally oriented in a direction opposite to the propagation wave vector.
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Controlled spatial shaping of nondiffracting patterns and arrays

TL;DR: It is verified that the condition of nondiffracting propagation of an optical beam provides the degrees of freedom that are applicable to the controlled shaping of the beam's transverse intensity profile.
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Engineering light-matter interaction for emerging optical manipulation applications

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent trends in opti- cal micromanipulation by engineering light-matter inter-action and controlling the mechanical effects of optical fields is presented.
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General construction and connections of vector propagation invariant optical fields: TE and TM modes and polarization states

TL;DR: In this article, robust solutions of the Maxwell equations describing propagation invariant optical fields are presented in general; the elements for their specific applications to the Bessel, Mathieu and Weber families are also provided.
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Electromagnetic Diffraction in Optical Systems. II. Structure of the Image Field in an Aplanatic System

TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of the structure of the electromagnetic field near the focus of an aplanatic system which images a point source is made, and the results are illustrated by diagrams and in a tabulated form based on data obtained by extensive calculations on an electronic computor.
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Production and uses of diffractionless beams

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed to obtain intense optical fields, whose form shows little change in size over long paths, through the use of either conical lenses or spherical lenses showing spherical aberration together with a single projecting lens.
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Diffraction Theory of Electromagnetic Waves

TL;DR: In this paper, a vector analog of Green's theorem is applied to the calculation of diffraction of electromagnetic waves from a rectangular slit in a screen of infinite conductivity, and the results are compared with an exact solution obtained recently by Morse and Rubenstein.