Optical Mirages from Spinless Beams

Spin–orbit interactions of light are ubiquitous in multiple branches nanophotonics, including optical wave localization. In that framework, it is widely accepted circularly polarized beams lead to spin-dependent apparent shifts dipolar targets, commonly referred as mirages. contrast, these mirages vanish when the illumination comes from a spinless beam such linearly wave. Here we show localization errors emerge for particles sustaining electric and magnetic response under beams. As an example, calculate mirage scattering by high refractive index nanosphere plane carrying null spin, orbital, total angular momentum. Our results point overlooked interference between dipoles rather than spin–orbit origin tilted position nanosphere.