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Do evanescent waves contribute to the far field?

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Abstract

Evanescent waves have become of considerable interest in recent years because of developments in near-field optics. Claims have been made that such waves contribute to the radiation fields of sources and to the far fields of scatterers. We show, by considering a spherical scalar wave and a linear electric dipole field, that these claims are misleading and that such contributions are without physical consequences. Our conclusions apply to a much broader class of fields than those considered in this Letter.

© 1998 Optical Society of America

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Emil Wolf and John T. Foley, "Do evanescent waves contribute to the far field??Errata," Opt. Lett. 23, 1142-1142 (1998)
https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-23-14-1142

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