DocumentCode
3688265
Title
Light´s twist
Author
Miles Padgett
Author_Institution
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
fYear
2015
Firstpage
531
Lastpage
532
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"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
ISSN
1092-8081
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323714
Filename
7323714
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