Links
- Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
- A comprehensive collection of optics and laser definitions
- [PDF] Measuring the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon
- A June 2002 paper from the Physical Review Letters that describes an interferometric method for measuring the orbital angular momentum of single photons
- Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum
- A November 2004 paper from Optics Express that describes the transfer of information encoded in the OAM states of photons.
- [PDF] Generation of optical phase singularities by computer-generated holograms
- A February 1992 paper from the Optics Letters that describes the generation of lasers with phase singularities via computer-generated holograms
- Adjustable spiral phase plate
- An April 2004 paper from Applied Optics that describes the construction of a phase plate retarder using a deformed cracked plexiglass plate
- [PDF] Optimal annular computer-generated holograms for the generation of optical vortices
- A February 2005 paper from the Journal of the Optical Society of America that describes the efficient creation of optical vortices using computer generated holograms.
- Optical particle trapping with higher-order doughnut beams produced using high efficiency computer generated holograms
- A Heckenberg and Rubinsztein-Dunlop paper published in the Journal of Modern Optics in 1995. It describes how to trap particles using vortices created by CGHs (one of the classics).
- [PDF] Optical vortices produced with a nonspiral phase plate
- Published by Kim, Ko, Moon, Lee, and Chang from Seoul National University. This paper describes a simple method of producing vortices that involves linearly phase shifting one half of a regular laser beam.