Breakup of Ring Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum in Sodium Vapor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Bigelow, Matthew S ^a   Zerom, Petros ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SODIUM; SOLITONS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SODIUM VAPORS; VORTEX BEAMS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 1842609904     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083902     Document Type: Article

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