Spatiotemporal polarization gradients in phase-bearing light

V. E. Lembessis; M. Babiker

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.033811

Spatiotemporal polarization gradients in phase-bearing light

V. E. Lembessis, M. Babiker

Physics

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Abstract

It is shown how the interference of two circularly polarized laser beams endowed with orbital angular momentum can give rise to spatial and temporal polarization gradients, displaying axial as well as angular symmetry properties. Illustrations are given with reference to circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian beams as typical light beams carrying orbital angular momentum.

Original language	English
Article number	033811
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review A
Volume	81
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.033811
Publication status	Published - 8 Mar 2010

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ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM
ATOMS

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Spatiotemporal polarization gradients in phase-bearing light

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