Light beams with very high orbital angular momentum

J. Courtial; K. Dholakia; L. Allen; M.J. Padgett

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997),
paper QThB2

Light beams with very high orbital angular momentum

J. Courtial, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M.J. Padgett

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 1997

Baltimore, Maryland United States
18–23 May 1997
ISBN: 1-55752-501-3

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J. Courtial, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett, "Light beams with very high orbital angular momentum," in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, J. Bokor, R. Slusher, P. Bucksbaum, and R. Falcone, eds., Vol. 12 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997), paper QThB2.

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Abstract

It has been shown that a Laguerre-Gaussian laser bearn possesses orbital angular momentum in per photon associated with the azimuthal phase dependence of the electromagnetic field, exp(ilϕ), in addition to spin angular momentum arising from polarization.¹

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