Fourier relationship between angular position and optical orbital angular momentum

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9071-9076

  Yao, Eric ^a   Franke Arnold, Sonja ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a   Barnett, Stephen ^b   Padgett, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTONS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM SPREAD; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL COMPONENTS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

LIGHT;

EID: 33749412311     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009071     Document Type: Article

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