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Orbital angular momentum and nonparaxial light beams
Optics Communications · 1994 · Vol. 110(5-6) · pp. 670–678
Stephen M. Barnett✉(University of Strathclyde)L. Allen(University of Essex)
Orbital Angular Momentum in OpticsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesOptical Polarization and EllipsometryAngular momentumPhysicsParaxial approximationAngular momentum couplingOrbital angular momentum of lightTotal angular momentum quantum numberAngular momentum of lightOrbital angular momentum multiplexingMonochromatic colorLight beam
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- Royal Society of Edinburgh
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