Integer and fractional angular momentum borne on self-trapped necklace-ring beams.
We present self-trapped necklace-ring beams that carry and conserve angular momentum. Such beams can have a fractional ratio of angular momentum to energy, and they exhibit a series of phenomena typically associated with rotation of rigid bodies and centrifugal force effects.
Soljacić
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Physics Department, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Segev
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