Angular momentum of optical vortex arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 938-949

  Courtial, Johannes ^a   Zambrini, Roberta ^b   Dennis, Mark R ^c   Vasnetsov, Mikhail ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physics University of Southclyde   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTATION; VORTEX FLOW;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM); UNIT CELL; X- AND Y-PERIODIC MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 31144451380     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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