Title :
The effect of orbital angular momentum on nondiffracting optical pulses
Author :
Ornigotti, Marco ; Conti, Claudio ; Szameit, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Phys., Friedrich-Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany
Abstract :
We study the effects of orbital angular momentum on a nondiffracting optical pulse, and show that there exist a limit on the amount of OAM that a pulse can carry without modifying its temporal properties.
Keywords :
optical limiters; nondiffracting optical pulses; optical limit; orbital angular momentum effect; Electromagnetics; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
