Detecting photons in the dark region of Laguerre-Gauss beams

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9718-9723

  Klimov, Vasily ^a   Bloch, Daniel ^b   Ducloy, Martial ^b   Leite, Jose R Rios ^c  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM;

ELECTRIC QUADRUPOLE TRANSITION; LAGUERRE GAUSS BEAMS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; OPTICAL FIELD; PHOTON DETECTOR; QUANTUM LEVELS; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66849119073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009718     Document Type: Article

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