Optical vortices in fiber

Nanophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 455-474

  Ramachandran, Siddharth ^a   Kristensen, Poul ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Fiber; Optical vortex; Orbital angular momentum; Radially polarized; Vector beams

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BEAM-SHAPING; OPTICAL VORTICES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RADIALLY POLARIZED; VECTOR BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84901325842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2013-0047     Document Type: Review

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