Photon self-induced spin-to-orbital conversion in a terbium-gallium-garnet crystal at high laser power

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Mosca, S ^a   Canuel, B ^b   Karimi, E ^a   Piccirillo, B ^a,c   Marrucci, L ^a   De Rosa, R ^a   Genin, E ^b   Milano, L ^a   Santamato, E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY EGO   (Italy)

^c Fisiche della Materia   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GARNET CRYSTALS; GOOD BEAM QUALITY; HIGH LASER POWER; INTENSE LASER; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; LASER POWER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; NOVEL METHODS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTON ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTON ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; RADIAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; SELF-FOCUSING; THIRD-ORDER;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DEPOLARIZATION; GALLIUM; GARNETS; LASER HEATING; PHOTONS; SILICATE MINERALS; TERBIUM; TERBIUM ALLOYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 77957762660     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043806     Document Type: Article

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