Abstract
Uncertainty relations for light pulses found in our previous paper [Phys. Rev. A 86, 022118 (2012)] were derived in the three-dimensional case which emphasized the localization in a volume. Here we derive the uncertainty relation for light beams in the two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the direction of the beam propagation which is more interesting for realistic beams. This uncertainty relation connects the area of the focal spot with the spectrum of transverse photon momenta. The shape of the beam that saturates the uncertainty relation is very close to a Gaussian. The directions of the electric and magnetic field vectors are those of the circularly polarized plane wave. Our uncertainty relation for the focal spot is quite general but we were able to determine the value of the lower bound only for beams made of many photons.
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