Polarization rotation of slow light with orbital angular momentum in ultracold atomic gases

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ruseckas, Julius ^a   Juzeliunas, Gediminas ^a   Öhberg, Patrik ^b   Barnett, Stephen M ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFT;

POLARIZATION PLANE; VORTEX LATTICE;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 36249019720     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053822     Document Type: Article

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