Experimental observation of rotation and diffraction of a "singular" light beam

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3487, Issue , 1997, Pages 34-38

  Basistiy, I V ^a   Kreminskaya, L V ^a   Marienko, I G ^a   Soskin, M S ^a   Vasnetsov, M V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Angular momentum; Optical vortices; Phase singularity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ROTATION; VELOCITY; WAVEFRONTS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GAUSSIAN ENVELOPE; HELICAL WAVEFRONT; OPTICAL VORTEX; PHASE SINGULARITY; SINGULAR LIGHT BEAM;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0031417021     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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