Creating well-defined orbital angular momentum states with a random turbulent medium

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12292-12302

  Oesch, Denis W ^a   Sanchez, Darryl J ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BRANCH POINTS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM STATE; TURBULENT MEDIUM;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861498528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012292     Document Type: Article

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