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most citedOptical Singularity Dynamics and Spin-Orbit Interaction due to a Normal-Incident Optical Beam Reflected at a Plane Dielectric Interface

11 citations · 21 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Complex far fields and optical singularities due to propagation beyond tight focusing: combined effects of wavefront curvature and aperture diffraction

Nitish Kumar, Anirban Debnath, Nirmal K. Viswanathan

All optical systems, which involve the collimation of a reflected, transmitted or scattered wave subsequent to tight focusing, are subject to two kinds of deviations. One is the wa…

physics.optics2023

Measurement of Orbital Angular Momentum of Light using Stokes Parameters and Barnett's Formalism

Anirban Debnath, Nirmal K. Viswanathan

We present a formalism for experimental determination of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a paraxial optical beam-field by intertwining Barnett's formalism and Stokes paramete…

physics.optics2022★ 11 cited

Optical Singularity Dynamics and Spin-Orbit Interaction due to a Normal-Incident Optical Beam Reflected at a Plane Dielectric Interface

Anirban Debnath, Nitish Kumar, Upasana Baishya +1

The degenerate case of normal incidence and reflection of an optical beam (both paraxial and non-paraxial) at a plane isotropic dielectric interface, which is azimuthally symmetric…

physics.optics2022★ 6 cited

Generic Optical Singularities and Beam-field Phenomena due to General Paraxial Beam Reflection at a Plane Dielectric Interface

Anirban Debnath, Nirmal K. Viswanathan

A single paraxial beam reflection at a plane dielectric interface, configured appropriately, can lead to the formation of a polarization singularity in the inhomogeneously polarize…

physics.optics2022

Orbital Angular Momenta and Geometric Phase Characteristics of Spin-polarized Components of a General Paraxial Beam-field

Anirban Debnath, Nirmal K. Viswanathan

We explore a subtle and fundamental nature of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in a general paraxial beam-field by mathematically characterizing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) flux…

physics.optics2020

Generic Optical Singularities in Brewster-reflected Post-paraxial Beam-fields

Anirban Debnath, Nirmal K. Viswanathan

Brewster-reflection of a post-paraxial optical beam at a plane dielectric interface unravels fundamentally significant optical singularity dynamics. We express the simulated field-…