Spiraling light: from donut modes to a Magnus effect analogy
The insight that optical vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), which emerged in Leiden about 30 years ago, has since led to an ever expanding range of applications and follow-up studies. This paper starts with a short personal account of how these concepts arose. This is followed by a d...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Nanophotonics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0458 |