Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

Keywords

Angular momentum, Light beam, Physics, Orbital angular momentum of light, Optical vortex

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• Detecting Lateral Motion using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum慶一 保土沢, 聡 石上, 裕隆 柳田 — 2015
• Iterative creation and sensing of twisted light.José Luis Salido Banús — 2016
• Tomographic polarization analyzer by polarization-mode-frequency mapping.和好 井ノ口 — 2017
• Experimental characterization of continuous-variable orbital angular momentum entanglement using Stokes-operator basis.Matilde Marcos, Aurelio Arteta Aisa — 2018
• Experimental Realization of Slowly Rotating Modes of LightF. An — 2014
• Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beamsAlan E. Willner, Hao Huang, Yuqi Yan — 2015
• Compton scattering of twisted light: angular distribution and polarization of scattered photonsSebastian O. Stock, A. Surzhykov, S. Fritzsche — 2015
• On the angular momentum of lightDavıd L. Andrews, Davıd L. Andrews, Jörg B. Götte — 2014
• Optical theorem for the conservation of electromagnetic helicity: Significance for molecular energy transfer and enantiomeric discrimination by circular dichroismM. Nieto‐Vesperinas — 2015
• A study of microviscosity in liquid crystals using laser tweezersJennifer L. Sanders — 2012
• Identifying Orbital Angular Momentum of Vectorial Vortices with Pancharatnam Phase and Stokes ParametersDengke Zhang, Xue Feng, Kaiyu Cui — 2014
• Supermode fiber for orbital angular momentum (OAM) transmission.Shuhui Li, Jian Wang — 2015
• Orbital angular momentum filter of photon based on spin-orbital angular momentum couplingDong‐Xu Chen, Pei Zhang, Ruifeng Liu — 2015
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• Angular accelerating white lightAngela Dudley, Christian Vetter, Alexander Szameit — 2015
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