Orbital Angular Momentum Exchange in the Interaction of Twisted Light with Molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Babiker, M ^a   Bennett, C R ^b   Andrews, D L ^c   Davila Romero L C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULES; VECTORS;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE TRANSITION; ELECTRONIC TYPE MOTION; LIGHT MOLECULE INTERACTION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; TWISTED LIGHT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 45849155372     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.143601     Document Type: Article

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