Observation of the Transfer of the Local Angular Momentum Density of a Multiringed Light Beam to an Optically Trapped Particle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Garces Chavez V ^a   McGloin, D ^a   Padgett, M J ^b   Dultz, W ^c   Schmitzer, H ^d   Dholakia, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0142120663     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.093602     Document Type: Article

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