Sorting photons of different rotational Doppler shifts (RDS) by orbital angular momentum of single-photon with spin-orbit-RDS entanglement

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14629-14634

  Chen, Lixiang ^a   She, Weilong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DOPPLER EFFECT; MOMENTUM; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUANTUM NUMBERS; ROTATING VELOCITY; ROTATIONAL DOPPLER; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51849132569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014629     Document Type: Article

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