Catenary optics for achromatic generation of perfect optical angular momentum

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Pu, Mingbo ^a,c   Li, Xiong ^a,c   Ma, Xiaoliang ^a,c   Wang, Yanqin ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Gao, Ping ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Ren, Haoran ^b   Li, Xiangping ^b   Qin, Fei ^c   Yang, Jing ^c   Gu, Min ^b   Hong, Minghui ^c   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LIGHT;

BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPLETE CONTROL; OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PLANAR OPTICAL DEVICES; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

OVERHEAD LINES;

EID: 85038442909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500396     Document Type: Article

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