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Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes 1992 2026 2003 2014 6.9k
  1. Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes (1992)
    L. Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen et al. Physical Review A
  2. Astigmatic laser mode converters and transfer of orbital angular momentum (1993)
    Marco W. Beijersbergen, L. Allen et al. Optics Communications
  3. Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner (1997)
    N. B. Simpson, Kishan Dholakia et al. Optics Letters
  4. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Nature of the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Light Beam (2002)
    Anna T. O’Neil, L. Allen et al. Physical Review Letters
  5. Advances in optical angular momentum (2008)
    Sonja Franke‐Arnold, L. Allen et al. Laser & Photonics Review

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L. Allen 12978 1052 6113 2312 38 13.6k
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R. J. C. Spreeuw 8928 555 3067 1749 70 9.4k
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Johannes Courtial 7706 507 3949 1807 119 8.4k
E. Wolf 8317 923 4764 2305 164 11.4k
Sonja Franke‐Arnold 7267 346 2839 1482 112 7.6k
Yongxiong Ren 8990 233 3780 5034 107 10.1k
Hao Huang 8429 227 3619 4713 105 9.7k
Lorenzo Marrucci 8951 494 3556 2048 191 10.7k

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