Coherent transfer of orbital angular momentum to excitons by optical four-wave mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20567-20574

  Ueno, Y ^a   Toda, Y ^a   Adachi, S ^a   Morita, R ^a   Tawara, T ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EXCITONS; MOMENTUM; ORBITAL TRANSFER;

COHERENT TRANSFER; CONSERVATION LAW; EXCITON DEPHASING; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; OPTICAL VORTICES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE SINGULARITIES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALLIUM; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70749090368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020567     Document Type: Article

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