Observation of orbital angular momentum sidebands due to optical reflection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Loffler W ^a   Aiello, Andrea ^b,c   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; ANGULAR SPREADS; FRESNEL COEFFICIENT; OPTICAL REFLECTION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARAXIAL LIGHT BEAM; PLANAR INTERFACE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 84866329685     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.113602     Document Type: Article

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