Limit to the orbital angular momentum per unit energy in a light beam that can be focussed onto a small particle
- 31 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Optics Communications
- Vol. 173 (1-6), 269-274
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0030-4018(99)00619-7
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