Vortex Flow of Light: "Spin" and "Orbital" Flows in a Circularly Polarized Paraxial Beam

Twisted Photons: Applications of Light with Orbital Angular Momentum

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-24

  Bekshaev, Aleksandr ^a   Vasnetsov, Mikhail ^b  

^a ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; Light beam; Orbital motion; Spin angular momentum; Transverse energy flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955877599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527635368.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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