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Opt Lett
; 31(14): 2205-7, 2006 Jul 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16794727
ABSTRACT
When light is transmitted along the axis of a rotating glass rod, the polarization of the light is rotated through a small angle [Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A349, 423 (1976)]. Under the same conditions, we predict a rotation of the transmitted image by exactly the same angle. The treatment of the two effects in terms of light's spin and orbital angular momentum suggests that they share a common origin.