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Measuring the orbital angular momentum of a single photon

Jonathan Leach, Miles J. Padgett, Stephen Mark Barnett, Sonja Franke‐Arnold, Johannes Courtial

Published Nov 26, 2004• 13 citations
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10.1887/0750309016/b1142c52

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