Distribution of phase and orbital angular momentum of tightly focused vortex beams

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Zhiming ^a,b   Pu, Jixiong ^a   Wang, Xiqing ^b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

orbital angular momentum; phase; tightly focusing; vortex beams

Indexed keywords

DEBYE THEORY; FIELD COMPONENTS; FOCAL PLANE; LIGHT FIELDS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OBSERVATION PLANES; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; TIGHTLY FOCUSING; VORTEX BEAMS; WAVEFRONT DISLOCATION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; FOCUSING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LOCATION; SCREW DISLOCATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80855129432     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2940139     Document Type: Article

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