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- Enrico Santamato, Antonio Sasso, Bruno Piccirillo, and Angela Vella.
- Opt Express. 2002 Aug 26; 10 (17): 871-8.
AbstractThe torque exerted by an astigmatic optical beam on small transparent isotropic particles was dynamically measured observing the angular motion of the particles under a microscope. The data confirmed that torque was originated by the transfer of orbital angular momentum associated with the spatial changes in the phase of the optical field induced by the moving particle. This mechanism for angular momentum transfer works also with incident light beams with no net angular momentum.
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