Rapid generation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 30204-30211

  Mirhosseini, Mohammad ^a   Magaña Loaiza, Omar S ^a   Chen, Changchen ^a   Rodenburg, Brandon ^a   Malik, Mehul ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LASER BEAMS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; DIGITAL MICRO-MIRROR DEVICE; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RAPID GENERATIONS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84890540227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.030204     Document Type: Article

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