Measurement of the orbital angular momentum of an optical beam with the help of space-angle intensity moments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4607, Issue , 2002, Pages 90-98

  Bekshaev, Aleksandr ^a,b   Popov, Andrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Angular momentum; Beam distortion; Beam shift; Centre of gravity; Diffraction grating; Dispersion elements; Intensity moments; Optical vortex

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODETECTORS;

OPTICAL VORTEX; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM);

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0036400514     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.455175     Document Type: Article

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