Light’s Twist

Miles Padgett

doi:10.1364/CLEO_AT.2015.JW5A.1

CLEO: 2015
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
paper JW5A.1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2015.JW5A.1

Light’s Twist

Miles Padgett

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2015

San Jose, California United States
10–15 May 2015
ISBN: 978-1-55752-968-8

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Plenary Session III (JW5A)

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Abstract

That light travels in straight lines is a statement of the obvious. But within light beams energy and momentum can twist and twirl, carrying angular momentum that can spin particles, encode information and test quantum mechanics.

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