Behavior of Propagating and Evanescent Components in Azimuthally-polarized Nonparaxial Fields
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The contribution of the propagating and the evanescent waves associated with freely propagating nonparaxial light fields whose transverse component is azimuthally polarized at some plane is investigated. Analytic expressions are derived for describing both the spatial shape and the relative weight of the propagating and the evanescent components integrated over the transverse plane. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the plane-wave angular spectrum approach. These results are used to illustrate the behavior of a kind of doughnut-like beams with transverse azimuthal polarization at some plane.
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