Mechanical evidence of the orbital angular momentum to energy ratio of vortex beams

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Demore, Christine E M ^a   Yang, Zhengyi ^a   Volovick, Alexander ^a,b   Cochran, Sandy ^a   MacDonald, Michael P ^a   Spalding, Gabriel C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

^c ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ABSORBERS; ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; AZIMUTHAL COMPONENTS; ENERGY RATIO; EXPECTED VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HELICAL PHASE; LEVITATION FORCE; LINEAR MOMENTA; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POYNTING VECTORS; PROPAGATION AXIS; RADIATION PRESSURE; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; ULTRASONIC BEAMS; VORTEX BEAMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 84860740494     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.194301     Document Type: Article

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