Doppler effect induced by rotating lenses

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作者
Nienhuis, G
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[1] Huygens Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 2300 RA Leiden
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10.1016/0030-4018(96)00295-7
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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The orbital angular momentum inherent to light beams with a helical wavefront can be transferred to non-isotropic lenses. A system of three cylindrical lenses suffices to transform an arbitrary paraxial input beam by inverting one transverse direction of the mode function. This also inverts the orbital angular momentum of a Laguerre-Gaussian beam with mode index In. The corresponding transfer of angular momentum shows up directly as a frequency shift 2m Ohm when the lens system is set in rotation at frequency Ohm around the axis.
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