Optical vortices: Optical manipulation to crystal dislocations

Michael P. MacDonald; Kishan Dholakia

doi:10.1016/j.physc.2007.11.074

Optical vortices: Optical manipulation to crystal dislocations

Michael P. MacDonald, Kishan Dholakia

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	508-513
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physica C: Superconductivity
Volume	468
Issue number	7-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2007.11.074
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2008

Keywords

optical vortices
Laguerre-Gaussian beams
optical manipulation
phase singularities
ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM
LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODES
INTERFERENCE PATTERNS
PHASE-STRUCTURE
LASER MODES
PARTICLES
LIGHT
BEAMS
TWEEZERS
VORTEX

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