Optical orbital angular momentum

Stephen M. Barnett; Mohamed Babiker; Miles J. Padgett

doi:10.1098/rsta.2015.0444

Optical orbital angular momentum

Stephen M. Barnett^*, Mohamed Babiker, Miles J. Padgett

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Abstract

We present a brief introduction to the orbital angular momentum of light, the subject of our theme issue and, in particular, to the developments in the 13 years following the founding paper by Allen et al. (Allen et al. 1992 Phys. Rev. A 45, 8185 (doi:10.1103/ PhysRevA.45.8185)). The papers by our invited authors serve to bring the field up to date and suggest where developments may take us next.

Original language	English
Article number	20150444
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Volume	375
Issue number	2087
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0444
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2017

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Optics
orbital angular momentum
spin

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