Spin-induced angular momentum switching

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 838-840

  Calvo, Gabriel F ^a   Picón, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL AXIS PHASE PLATES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 33947184301     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000838     Document Type: Article

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