Analysis of orbital angular momentum of a misaligned optical beam

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Vasnetsov, M V ^a   Pas'ko, V A ^b   Soskin, M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL HARMONICS; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS; OPTICAL BEAMS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RATIONAL FREQUENCIES;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LENSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; PROJECTION SCREENS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

LIGHT;

EID: 23244465486     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/046     Document Type: Article

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