It is known that the Poynting vector in a plane electromagnetic field is always along its propagation direction irrespective of its polarization state. Here we show, by making use of a superposition of four linearly-polarized plane waves, that the Po...
This paper analyzes the power distribution and flow of an inductive power transfer (IPT) system with two coupled coils by using the Poynting vector. The system is modelled with a current source flowing through the primary coil, and a uniformly loaded...
This study analyzes the instantaneous spatial energy density and Poynting vector in the WPT system and presents time-varying distributions and animations of this energy density and Poynting vector. First, the energy density is decoupled by two self-e...
The streamlines of the energy flux (Poynting vectors) and chirality flux as well as the intensity of the electric field around various plasmonic nanostructures (nanocube, nanocuboid, nanotriangle, hexagonal nanoplate and bowtie nanoantenna) induced b...
Singularities of the Poynting vector field subwavelength patterns in resonant light scattering by nanoparticles are discussed and classified. There are two generic types of the singularities, namely, (i) the singularities related to the vanishing of...
Photonic hook is a high-intensity, bent light focus with a proportional curvature to the wavelength of the incident light. Based on this unique light-bending phenomenon, a novel near-field photonic switch by means of a right-trapezoid dielectric Janu...
Estimating the coupling properties between a radiating structure and other conductive elements, the field behavior of the radiating source is essential to know. One well-known classification of the field behavior are the field-regions around antennas...
We present the results of a study of the Poynting vector field generic singularities at the resonant light scattering of a plane monochromatic linearly polarized electromagnetic wave by a subwavelength particle. We reveal the impact of the problem sy...
The optical properties of solid-core micro-structured optical fibers (SC MOFs) have been studied for a long time. The process of the energy outflow of the core modes has always been associated with the process of constructive interference of the core...
This work discusses the behavior of transverse energy fluxes of the fundamental core mode of a holey fibers and a photonic band gap fibers when the polarization state of this mode changes. The behavior of the transverse component of the Poynting vect...
Recently, there has been increased interest in the shaping of light fields with an inverse energy flux to guide optically trapped nano- and microparticles towards a radiation source. To generate inverse energy flux, non-uniformly polarized laser beam...
Reservoir parameter estimation is one of the goals of amplitude-versus-angle (AVA) inversion and angle-domain common image gathers are the basis of AVA inversion. Therefore, the accuracy of kinematic and kinetic information on angle gathers is very i...
We study the tight focus of generalized (hybrid) Poincaré beams. A conventional Poincaré beam is a coaxial superposition of two optical vortices, one with left circular polarization and a topological charge (TC) of m, while the other ha...
We have studied the extinction power flow for a dipole in a laser beam, and embedded in a dissipating medium. The power flows along the field lines of the Poynting vector. We have shown that near the particle, the field lines form closed loops, which...
It is still difficult to accurately evaluate the reactive electromagnetic energy and the radiative electromagnetic energy of a radiator, because there are no explicit expressions for them. This paper proposes to borrow the energy concept in the charg...
In this paper, we consider the behavior of the local energy flow velocity of the fundamental air-core mode at the core-cladding boundary in two types of hollow-core fibers: hollow-core fibers with a negative curvature of the core boundary and single-...
Functionally graded piezoelectric–piezomagnetic (FGPP) material simultaneously consists of piezomagnetic and piezoelectric phases, which are able to convert energy among mechanical, electric, and magnetic fields. The magneto-electric effect on...
Mid-ranged wireless power transfer by induction or inductive power transfer (IPT), including the strong magnetic resonance method, has been widely adopted, in numerous applications where wires are restricted. The energy flow in space, of course, is i...
Backflow, or retropropagation, is a counterintuitive phenomenon whereby for a forward-propagating wave the energy locally propagates backward. In the context of backflow, physically most interesting are the so-called unidirectional waves, which conta...
In this study, a new method for manipulating energy flow in a 3D vector field is proposed. In this method, an azimuthally-polarized beam with a noncanonical vortex, the X-type vortex, is focused in a high-numerical aperture system. It is found that,...
It is known that angular momentum (AM) is an important characteristic of light, which can be separated into the spin (SAM) and orbital parts (OAM). The dynamical properties of the spin and orbital angular momentums are determined by the polarization...
It is shown, theoretically and numerically, that the distributions of the longitudinal energy flow for tightly focused light with circular and linear polarization are the same, and that the spot has circular symmetry. It is also shown that the longit...
In this paper, spin-orbital conversion in the tight focus of an axial superposition of a high-order (order m) cylindrical vector beam and a beam with linear polarization is theoretically and numerically considered. Although such a beam does not have...
Using the Richards–Wolf diffraction integral, the longitudinal energy evolution on the focal plane of the fractional order vector vortex (FOVV) beams was studied. These beams possessed a vortex topological charge n and a polarization topologica...
In railway traction, the definition of “electromagnetic field” is functionally connected to the concept of the reactive power consumed by the electric rolling stock, and characterized by the running and standing electromagnetic waves in the space of...
In this paper, we investigate the connection between average power flows in Love wave waveguides with the mass sensitivity of Love wave sensors. In fact, loading with a Newtonian liquid gives rise to two extra power flows, in the transverse direction...
This paper discusses the basic concepts of phase dislocations and vortex formation in the electric fields of fundamental air core mode of hollow core waveguides with specific types of rotational symmetry of the core-cladding boundary. Analysis of the...
The tight focusing of an optical vortex with an integer topological charge (TC) and linear polarization was considered. We showed that the longitudinal components of the spin angular momentum (SAM) (it was equal to zero) and orbital angular momentum...
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel photonic hook being initiated using an air–liquid interface (ALI). This bent light focus is produced by immersing a dielectric micro-cylinder partially at the edge of a thin liquid film whose thickness is s...
It is shown in this work that, with strong focusing of a beam with optical vortex and circular polarization, three energy flows take place in the focal plane: direct longitudinal, reverse longitudinal and azimuthal transverse flows. Calculations are...
Volumetric scattering prevents imaging modalities in biomedical optics from imaging deep inside tissue. The optimization of the incident wavefront has the potential to improve these imaging modalities. To investigate the optimization and light propag...
There exist multiple different even non-equivalent expressions describing characteristics of electromagnetic wave energy flow and momentum in media, which makes the issue confusing. For simplicity (without loss of generality), we shall consider a cas...
In this study, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the propagation of a second-order cylindrical vector beam through an aluminum lens which forms a tight focus at the distance of the wavelength. Simulation by the finite-difference time-do...
We study the sharp focusing of the input structured light field that has a non-uniform elliptical polarization: the parameters of the ellipse depend on the position in the input plane (we limited ourselves to the dependence only on the angular variab...
We theoretically analyze the methodology for obtaining vectorial three-dimensional bullets, concretely Airy–Gauss bullets. To do this, binary micro zonal plates (BZP) were designed in order to obtain different Airy–Gauss bullets with sub-...
We show that when strongly focusing a linearly polarized optical vortex with the topological charge 2 (or −2) in the near-focus region, there occurs not only a reverse energy flow (where the projection of the Poynting vector is negative) but the righ...
We examine how a chiral medium responds to a pair of plane waves of circular polarizations. To this goal, we assume the chiral medium to be spatially homogeneous for simplicity. By assuming the medium to be a lossless, we provide analytic formulas of...
This paper extends current knowledge on electromagnetic wave scattering from bounded moving media in several regards. First, it complements the usual dispersion relation of moving media,
The family of Poincaré beams has three parameters, including two real-valued angular parameters, which specify a definite polarization state on the Poincaré sphere, and a third integer parameter n specifying the beam singularity order....
Based on the Richards-Wolf (RW) formalism, we obtain two different exact expressions for the angular momentum (AM) density of light in the focus of an optical vortex with a topological charge n and right circular polarization. One expression for the...
Light funneling determines how enhanced energy flows into subwavelength slits. In contrast to the previous research on oblique incident light, this study reveals that light funneling in the slits can be highly asymmetric, even at small angles. This m...
In a heat-assisted magnetic recording, the thermal effect of the head/disk interface has an important influence on the stability of the recording data. In this paper, we will discuss the thermal radiation from the disk, more specifically, the magneti...
An ultrasensitive Terahertz (THz) sensor consisting of the sub-wavelength bowtie black phosphorus (BP) and an annular gold (Au) ring is proposed. The interference between the resonance generated by the bowtie BP and the Au ring creates a Fano-type re...
Based on generalized Lorenz–Mie theory (GLMT) and the Maxwell stress tensor (MST) method, this study investigates the modulation mechanism of the axial optical torque Nz exerted on Cs2AgBiBr6 (CABB) perovskite-coated gold nanospheres under vect...
The spin–orbit interaction of light is universal in the process of light scattering, and an important aspect is the spin Hall effect. The spin Hall effect of light also exists in a three-dimensional (3D) system. When circularly polarized light is inc...
We discuss interesting effects that occur when strongly focusing light with mth-order cylindrical–circular polarization. This type of hybrid polarization combines properties of the mth-order cylindrical polarization and circular polarization. Reluing...
We theoretically investigated the properties of tightly focused ring Pearcey beams with a cross phase (CPRPB). The expressions of the distributions of both electric field and magnetic field in the focal region of an objective were first derived from...
Usual Gaussian beams are particular scalar solutions to the paraxial Helmholtz equation, which neglect the vector nature of light. In order to overcome this inconvenience, Simon et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1986, 3, 536–540) found a paraxial solu...
To achieve high-precision calculation of the electromagnetic field of layered media and to ensure that the apparent resistivity calculation and sensitivity are not affected by numerical errors, this paper implements high-precision calculation of the...
We report on the near-infrared (NIR) photoresponse of a micropatterned Ge/Si quantum dot (QD) pin photodiode at different angles of radiation incidence. The photon-trapping hole array was etched through the n+-type top contact layer to reach the buri...
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