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A: Fachverband Atomphysik

A 37: Poster: Twisted light and particles (SYTL)

A 37.3: Poster

Thursday, March 26, 2015, 17:00–19:00, C/Foyer

A basis of states for vortex beams — •Koen van Kruining — Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden

Quantum mechanics requires one to decompose a physical system in a complete orthonormal basis of eigenstates. For twisted light, a basis of transverse electric and transverse magnetic beams is presented. This basis is then applied for identifying the spin eigenstates and describing the interaction of a vortex beam with a birefringent medium.