Coherent transfer of orbital angular momentum from an atomic system to a light field

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Akamatsu, Daisuke ^a   Kozuma, Mikio ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; ROTATION; VORTEX FLOW;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAM; OPTICAL VORTEX; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0038301606     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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