Limit to the orbital angular momentum per unit energy in a light beam that can be focussed onto a small particle

Optics Communications

Volumn 173, Issue 1-6, 2000, Pages 269-274

  Courtial, Johannes ^a   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOCUSING; LASER BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; RAY TRACING;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RAY OPTICAL APPROXIMATION;

PARTICLE OPTICS;

EID: 0033904103     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00619-7     Document Type: Article

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