Conservation of angular momentum of light in single scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8425-8433

  Schwartz, Chaim ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; INCIDENT WAVES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33748286845     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008425     Document Type: Article

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