Letter: Local transfer of optical angular momentum to matter

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1045-1052

  Zambrini, Roberta ^a   Barnett, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TORQUE;

OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 27844448185     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340512331323448     Document Type: Article

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