Talk:Vortex laser beam

Neologism?
Does the cited paper actually refer to a device of this type as a "vortex laser"? Please provide a quote from the paper. Do any other sources use this term? Some quick Scholar searches don't turn up any significant usage of "vortex laser" as a noun phrase describing a type of device, as opposed to phrases like "vortex laser beam", in which the adjective vortex modifies the noun beam. I'm concerned that this article may be a violation of WP:NEO.--Srleffler (talk) 03:49, 17 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Too nuanced for me. Yes, the term does appear in the paper cited, as "vector vortex laser beam", with vortex laser being a shorthand.  I cited the original article from another summarizing it at Eurekalert (Laser beams with a 'twist' )I'm hoping for someone more expert in this field to help fill out the article. Tmangray (talk) 22:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)


 * That's what I was afraid of. This article purports to describe a device called a "vortex laser". It's not clear from your quote that such a device exists. What the paper appears to describe is a laser that produces vortex beams. Unless people out in the field are calling such a device a "vortex laser" we should not do so here.--Srleffler (talk) 01:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I discovered this stub and have begun to add some further information and references here. I did not see any reference in the article to a "vortex laser" or similar device, but have clarified the experimental context so as to make the distinction between "beams" and "devices."Wikibearwithme (talk) 19:18, 30 January 2018 (UTC)