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Optical Vortices with Large Orbital Momentum: Generation and InterferenceWe demonstrate a method for generation of beams of light with large angular momenta. The method utilizes whispering gallery mode resonators that transform a plane electromagnetic wave into high order Bessel beams. Interference pattern among the beams as well as shadow pictures induced by the beams are observed and studied.
Document ID
20080032383
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Savchenkov, Anatoliy A.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Matsko, Andrey B.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Grudinin, Ivan
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Savchenkova, Ekaterina A.
(Moscow Lomonosov State Univ. Moscow, Russia)
Strekalov, Dmitry
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Maleki, Lute
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
April 3, 2006
Publication Information
Publication: Optics Express
Volume: 14
Issue: 7
Subject Category
Optics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
diffraction theory
resonators
laser beam shaping

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