Optical vortices: Optical manipulation to crystal dislocations. / MacDonald, Michael P.; Dholakia, Kishan.
In: Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, Vol. 468, No. 7-10, 01.04.2008, p. 508-513.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical vortices: Optical manipulation to crystal dislocations
A1 - MacDonald,Michael P.
A1 - Dholakia,Kishan
AU - MacDonald,Michael P.
AU - Dholakia,Kishan
PY - 2008/4/1
Y1 - 2008/4/1
N2 - <p>Optical vortices are an interesting phenomenon, showing analogous behaviour to other vortices and screw dislocations found in physics and having many applications. We review here some of our work on optical vortices; covering their production, their use in manipulating low-refractive index micro-particles, the effects seen because of the orbital angular momentum contained within such beams and interfering optical vortices with associated applications. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>
AB - <p>Optical vortices are an interesting phenomenon, showing analogous behaviour to other vortices and screw dislocations found in physics and having many applications. We review here some of our work on optical vortices; covering their production, their use in manipulating low-refractive index micro-particles, the effects seen because of the orbital angular momentum contained within such beams and interfering optical vortices with associated applications. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>
KW - optical vortices
KW - Laguerre-Gaussian beams
KW - optical manipulation
KW - phase singularities
KW - ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM
KW - LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODES
KW - INTERFERENCE PATTERNS
KW - PHASE-STRUCTURE
KW - LASER MODES
KW - PARTICLES
KW - LIGHT
KW - BEAMS
KW - TWEEZERS
KW - VORTEX
U2 - 10.1016/j.physc.2007.11.074
DO - 10.1016/j.physc.2007.11.074
M1 - Article
JO - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
JF - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
SN - 0921-4534
IS - 7-10
VL - 468
SP - 508
EP - 513
ER -