Detection of a spinning object using light's orbital angular momentum.

نویسندگان

  • Martin P J Lavery
  • Fiona C Speirits
  • Stephen M Barnett
  • Miles J Padgett
چکیده

The linear Doppler shift is widely used to infer the velocity of approaching objects, but this shift does not detect rotation. By analyzing the orbital angular momentum of the light scattered from a spinning object, we observed a frequency shift proportional to product of the rotation frequency of the object and the orbital angular momentum of the light. This rotational frequency shift was still present when the angular momentum vector was parallel to the observation direction. The multiplicative enhancement of the frequency shift may have applications for the remote detection of rotating bodies in both terrestrial and astronomical settings.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 341 6145  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013