Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 57 (5), 35-40
- https://doi.org/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 microparticlesKeywords
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