Light's orbital angular momentum

Physics Today

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 35-40

  Padgett, Miles ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a   Allen, Les ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HOLOGRAMS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; VECTORS;

MAGNETIC FIELD INTENSITY; MULTIPOLAR TRANSITIONS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE SINGULARITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 2442610911     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1768672     Document Type: Article

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