Refractive elements for the measurement of the orbital angular momentum of a single photon

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2110-2115

  Lavery, Martin P J ^a   Robertson, David J ^b   Berkhout, Gregorius C G ^c   Love, Gordon D ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CHANNEL CAPACITY; OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CCDS; INPUT LIGHT; INPUT MODES; LASER SOURCES; MAXIMUM VALUES; MODE TRANSFORMER; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM STATE; REFRACTIVE ELEMENTS; SINGLE PHOTONS; TRANSVERSE MOMENTA;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84856480935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002110     Document Type: Article

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