Measurement of the light orbital angular momentum spectrum using an optical geometric transformation

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lavery, Martin P J ^a   Berkhout, Gregorius C G ^b,c   Courtial, Johannes ^a   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Cosine Science and Computing BV ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

computer generated holograms; Optical angular momentum; optical communication systems

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; STATES OF LIGHT;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79952979717     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064006     Document Type: Article

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