Laser beams with embedded vortices: Tools for atom optics

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-103

  Chattrapiban, Narupon ^a   Rogers, Elizabeth A ^b,c   Arakelyan, Ilya V ^a   Roy, Rajarshi ^a,b   Hill III, Wendell T ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICS;

ATOM OPTICS; EMBEDDED VORTICES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33644555519     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000094     Document Type: Article

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