Enrique J. Galvez

TL;DR: A study of Poincaré-beam polarization patterns produced by collinear superposition of two Laguerre-Gauss spatial modes in orthogonal polarization eigenstates finds that the resulting patterns can be explained in terms of mappings of points on the Poincare sphere onto points in the transverse plane of the beam mode.

TL;DR: It is shown that the vortices move about the beam axis as the light propagates resulting in a rotation of the beam's transverse profile, explained by the Gouy phase acquired by the component beams.

TL;DR: These measurements were done via the interference of two copropagating optical beams that pass through the same interferometer parts but acquire different geometric phases, and the method is insensitive to dynamical phases.

TL;DR: The data continue to reveal local stability near certain rational frequency ratios that recalls classical behavior, which supports theoretical predictions that as n/sub 0//sup 3/..omega.. rises above one quantal ionization threshold fields rise above those for the onset of classical chaos.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe five quantum mechanics experiments using correlated photons produced by parametric down conversion to generate interference patterns in interferometers, and analyze the results quantitatively using plane-wave probability amplitudes combined according to Feynman's rules, the state vector formalism, and amplitude packets.