Self-pumped phase conjugation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22791-22799

  Woerdemann, Mike ^a   Alpmann, Christina ^a   Denz, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MIRRORS; MOMENTUM; VORTEX FLOW;

HIGH-FIDELITY; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LABORATORY FRAME; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE CONJUGATING MIRROR; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; SELF PUMPED PHASE CONJUGATION; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72049105607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022791     Document Type: Article

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