Author_Institution :
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
That light travels in straight lines is an obvious statement. But within light the energy and momentum can twist and twirl like eddies in a stream. These twists carry angular momentum which make microscopic objects spin, encode information and allow new tests of quantum mechanics.
Keywords :
"Extraterrestrial measurements","Microscopy","Radar measurements","Optical diffraction"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323714
