Probability Distributions for Orbital Angular Momentum and Local Circulation in Vortex Beams

structured light
Frontiers in Optics 2015, FTh1C.2 (2015)
Authors

Anderson M. Amaral

Edilson L. Falcão-Filho

Cid B. de Araújo

Published

January 1, 2015

Doi

10.1364/FIO.2015.FTh1C.2

Anderson M. Amaral, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, and Cid B. de Araújo

DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2015.FTh1C.2

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Abstract

We discuss and experimentally demonstrate how to obtain the probability distributions for orbital angular momentum and local circulation in vortex beams of arbitrary shape.