Geometric phase associated with mode transformations of optical beams bearing orbital angular momentum

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Galvez, E J ^a   Crawford, P R ^a   Sztul, H I ^a   Pysher, M J ^a   Haglin, P J ^a   Williams, R E ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

OPTICAL BEAMS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0038127157     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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