Engineering a square truncated lattice with light's orbital angular momentum

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20616-20621

  Mesquita, Pedro H F ^a   Jesus Silva, Alcenísio J ^a   Fonseca, Eduardo J S ^a   Hickmann, Jandir M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR-BASED; FRACTIONAL STEP; FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION; LAGUERRE-GAUSS BEAM; LATTICE FORMATION; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SQUARE LATTICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 80053990375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020616     Document Type: Article

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