Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

2004/05/01 by Miles J. Padgett, Miles Padgett, Johannes Courtial +2 · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

paper · doi:10.1063/1.1768672

Abstract

The realization that light beams can have quantized orbital angular momentum in addition to spin angular momentum has led, in recent years, to novel experiments in quantum mechanics and new methods for manipulating microparticles

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