Transfer of orbital angular momentum from a super-continuum, white-light beam

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9495-9500

  Wright, Amanda J ^a   Girkin, John M ^a   Gibson, Graham M ^b   Leach, Jonathan ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LIGHT; MOMENTUM; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHASE STRUCTURE;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PURE CIRCULAR POLARIZATIONS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SUPER CONTINUUM; WHITE-LIGHT BEAMS;

ORBITAL TRANSFER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 46149110530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009495     Document Type: Article

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