Integer and Fractional Angular Momentum Borne on Self-Trapped Necklace-Ring Beams
Abstract
We present self-trapped necklace-ring beams that carry and conserve angular momentum. Such beams can have a fractional ratio of angular momentum to energy, and they exhibit a series of phenomena typically associated with rotation of rigid bodies and centrifugal force effects.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.420
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..86..420S