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    An optical vortex (also known as a photonic quantum vortex, screw dislocation or phase singularity) is a zero of an optical field; a point of zero intensity...
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    Oregon Vortex: Optical illusions or unexplained mysteries?". Oregon Live. Retrieved January 22, 2016. Willford, Tyler (2016-06-22). "The Oregon Vortex is...
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    An optical vortex coronagraph uses a phase-mask in which the phase shift varies azimuthally around the center. Several varieties of optical vortex coronagraphs...
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  • Vortex Optics is an American manufacturer of special optical equipments for hunting, wildlife watching, outdoor recreation, shooting sports and law enforcement...
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    condensate), as well as in photon fields (optical vortex) and exciton-polariton superfluids. In a superfluid, a quantum vortex "carries" quantized orbital angular...
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    Guide to Optical Trapping" (August 22, 2006). Last accessed on September 12, 2006. Swartzlander, G. A.; Gahagan, K. T. (1996-06-01). "Optical vortex trapping...
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  • are characterized by a wavefront that is shaped as a helix, with an optical vortex in the center, at the beam axis (see figure). If the phase varies around...
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    angular momentum of optical vortex is due to the perfect match of helical phase profiles of the incident and reflected beams. Optical phase conjugation...
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    In fluid dynamics, a vortex (pl.: vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or...
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    dichroism. Recent studies have shown how by using optical vortex light beams, a distinct type of Raman optical activity that is sensitive to the orbital angular...
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    A vortex coronagraph is a type of optical instrument for telescopes that blocks out the glare of bright objects (like stars) so that smaller objects near...
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    stress-induced birefringence in a glass plate to generate an optical vortex and full Poincare beams (optical beams that have every possible polarization state across...
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  • ; Drevinskas, R.; Beresna, M.; Kazansky, P.G. (2014). "Single beam optical vortex tweezers with tunable orbital angular momentum". Applied Physics Letters...
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    phases in one rotation around the beam (in φ). This is an example of an optical vortex of topological charge l, and can be associated with the orbital angular...
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    Marlan; Gaburro, Zeno; Capasso, Federico (2012). "Ultra-thin plasmonic optical vortex plate based on phase discontinuities". Applied Physics Letters. 100...
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  • vortex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vortex is a dynamic phenomenon of fluids. Vortex may also refer to: Vortex ring, a torus-shaped vortex in...
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    Laser (redirect from Optical maser)
    fractal-shaped beams. Specialized optical systems can produce more complex beam geometries, such as Bessel beams and optical vortexes. Near the "waist" (or focal...
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    Orbital angular momentum multiplexing (category Optical communications)
    contrast to the work of Bozinovic et al., which used a custom optical fiber that had a "vortex" refractive-index profile, the work by G. Milione et al. and...
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  • 1016/0167-2789(94)00119-7. Kivshar, Y.S.; et al. (1998). "Dynamics of optical vortex solitons" (PDF). Optics Communications. 152 (1): 198–206. Bibcode:1998OptCo...
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    Holographic weapon sight (category Optical devices)
    holographic sights until early 2017, when Vortex introduced the Razor AMG UH-1 into the market as a competing product. As Vortex introduced the Gen II model on mid...
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  • spinning black holes by analysing the orbital angular momentum and optical vortex structure of radiation from the accretion disk near the black holes...
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    STED microscopy (category Optical microscopy techniques)
    by a circular polarization of the depletion laser, combined with an optical vortex. The lateral resolution of this DOE is typically between 30 and 80 nm...
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  • itself spinning faster than the local speed of light within to create a vortex capable of trapping the light behind an event horizon just as a gravitational...
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  • highly cited publications include work on how to create and detect an optical vortex, sources of quantum entanglement, quantum tomography, and demonstration...
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    beams with quantized orbital angular momentum are also called electron vortex beams. An electron in free space travelling at non-relativistic speeds,...
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    Spinning tunnels—which are also known as vortex tunnels or rotating tunnels—are devices used at haunted attractions and amusement parks. When people walk...
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    Wake turbulence (redirect from Wake vortex)
    wake turbulence created by the wings of a heavy aircraft, the rotating vortex-pair lingers for a significant amount of time after the passage of the aircraft...
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  • Photoalignment (category Optical materials)
    alignment on a microscopic scale, thin film optical devices can be created like lens, polarizer, optical vortex generator, etc. Yaroshchuk, Oleg; Reznikov...
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  • "Vortex" is a maxi-single by the Japanese rock band, The Gazette. It was released on May 25, 2011 in two editions; the "Optical Impression" edition and...
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  • of the vortex. Huygens also found out that the centrifugal force is equal to the force that acts in the direction of the center of the vortex (centripetal...
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