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Light's twist

That light travels in straight lines is a statement of the obvious. However, the energy and momentum flow within light beams can twist to form vortices such as eddies in a stream. These twists carry angular momentum, which can make microscopic objects spin, be used to encode extra information in com...

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Autor principal: Padgett, Miles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25484612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0633