Transient optical angular momentum effects in light-matter interactions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Carter, A R ^a   Babiker, M ^a   Al Amri, M ^a,b   Andrews, D L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN LIGHT; ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM-ENDOWED LASER LIGHT;

GAMMA RAYS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RADIATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 28844484699     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.043407     Document Type: Article

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