Celebrating 40 years of Optics Letters – Top Papers
OSA journal, Optics Letters, turns 40 this year and as part of the celebrations they are compiling a list of their top 100 cited articles. Currently numbers 26-100 are listed here. Numbers 1-25 will be released later in the year.
We are very pleased to note that our group leader, Prof. Kishan Dholakia, is featured on the list. The article, “Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner” is number 53, with 539 citations as of Jan 4th 2017 (Clarivate Analytics).
Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
N. B. Simpson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
Optics Letters 22(1), 52-54 (1997)
doi: 10.1364/OL.22.000052
Posted: 31/05/2017