Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1860266 Physics Letters A 2010 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

The energy flow lines of the radiation emitted by a rotating electric dipole moment have a vortex structure near the source. The spatial extend of this vortex is well below an optical wavelength. This near-field vortex has a macroscopic effect which could be observed in the far field.

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Macroscopic far-field observation of the sub-wavelength near-field dipole vortex
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