Orbital angular momentum 25 years on [Invited]
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Orbital angular momentum 25 years on [Invited].
Twenty-five years ago Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman published their seminal paper establishing that light beams with helical phase-fronts carried an orbital angular momentum. Previously orbital angular momentum had been associated only with high-order atomic/molecular transitions and hence considered to be a rare occurrence. The realization that every photon in a laser beam could ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Optics Express
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.011265