Orbital and spin angular momentum in conical diffraction

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 685-690

  Berry, M V ^a   Jeffrey, M R ^a   Mansuripur, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal optics; Polarization; Singularities

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; REFRACTION; TORQUE;

NON-CHIRAL CRYSTAL; POLARIZED BEAMS; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 27344461013     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/11/011     Document Type: Article

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