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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
| Sumario: | 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 communication systems, enable the design of novel imaging systems and allow new tests of quantum mechanics. |
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