Angular momentum of a strongly focused Gaussian beam

By T. Nieminen, A. Stilgoe, N. Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop. 2008

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/52f362f9c8c484a74e47da5550760d3269f67d97

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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2. Miles J. Padgett
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4. Franco Nori
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Citations in the corpus

• Spin-to-orbital conversion of the angular momentum of light and its classical and quantum applications (2011, unknown): “, [3–8]).”
• Internal flows and energy circulation in light beams (2010, unknown): “In particular, figure 11 shows that spatial distributions of the transverse components lose the initial radial symmetry, whereas the longitudinal carries a  - dependent vortex.”
• Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications (2011, background): “However, it has been demonstrated that SAM-to-OAM transfer can indeed occur in such media when a Gaussian beam [9] or circularly polarized vortex beam [8] is tightly focused through a high-numerical-aperture (NA) lens.”