2014/12/07 by Andrea Aiello, Aiello, Andrea
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Optics (physics.optics) #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.2349
22 pages, no figures. This is the part II of arXiv:1412.0553 [quant-ph]
arxiv created 2014/12/07 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/07 · arxiv updated 2014/12/09 · openalex created_date 2022/10/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This work is the second part of an investigation aiming at the study of optical wave equations from a field-theoretic point of view. Here, we study classical and quantum aspects of scalar fields satisfying the paraxial wave equation. First, we determine conservation laws for energy, linear and angular momentum of paraxial fields in a classical context. Then, we proceed with the quantization of the field. Finally, we compare our result with the traditional ones.