False-Color Image of Laser Beam (IMAGE)

University of Vienna

False-Color Image of Laser Beam

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False-color image of a laser beam exhibiting a superposition of 100 right-handed and 100 left-handed quanta of orbital angular momenta, resulting in 100+100=200 bright spots on the inner ring

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Robert Fickler, University of Vienna

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