Whispering gallery resonators for studying orbital angular momentum of a photon

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Sep 30;95(14):143904. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.143904. Epub 2005 Sep 29.

Abstract

We propose a simple method for generation and detection of photons with nonzero angular momentum. The method utilizes high-quality factor ring resonators that transform a plane electromagnetic wave into a wave with nonzero angular momentum, and vice versa. We show that the method is especially promising for studying high-order Bessel beams, unreachable by other techniques.