Interferometric Methods to Measure Orbital and Spin, or the Total Angular Momentum of a Single Photon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 136011-136014

  Leach, Jonathan ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a   Skeldon, Kenneth ^a   Barnett, Stephen M ^b   Franke Arnold, Sonja ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HOLOGRAMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PRISMS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; STATE SPACE METHODS; STATISTICS;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM); SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM (SAM);

PHOTONS;

EID: 1242352373     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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