articlePhysics TodayMay 1, 2004Closed access

Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

University of Glasgow · University of Strathclyde

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Abstract

The realization that light beams can have quantized orbital angular momentum in addition to spin angular momentum has led, in recent years, to novel experiments in quantum mechanics and new methods for manipulating microparticles

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Keywords
  • Angular momentum
  • Angular momentum coupling
  • Azimuthal quantum number
  • Orbital motion
  • Orbital angular momentum of light
  • Physics
  • Total angular momentum quantum number
  • Angular momentum of light
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