Orbital angular momentum vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Optica

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 547-552

  Li, Huanlu ^a,b   Phillips, David B ^a,b   Wang, Xuyang ^a   Ho, Ying Lung D ^a   Chen, Lifeng ^a   Zhou, Xiaoqi ^a   Zhu, Jiangbo ^c   Yu, Siyuan ^a,c   Cai, Xinlun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Integrated optics devices; Laser beam shaping; Optical vortices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; LASER BEAM SHAPING; OPTICAL VORTICES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES; SUPERPOSITION STATE;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 84940028805     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000547     Document Type: Article

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