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Polarization of light and topological phases
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In this article, a survey and analysis of recent work on topological phases with polarization of light is presented, which has revealed several counterintuitive features of such phase shifts such as 2 nπ anholonomies, nonlinear and discontinuous behaviour originating from high singularities, peculiar spectral dependence, etc.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 256 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Polarization (waves) & Quantum decoherence.read more
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Pancharatnam–Berry phase shaping for control of the transverse enhancement of focusing
TL;DR: Calculations reveal that the transverse enhancement is controllable and depend on the phase index in the PB phase, thereby giving rise to a focus with tunable length and subwavelength width in the focal plane.
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Transpose symmetry of the Jones matrix and topological phases.
TL;DR: It is proved that the transmission Jones matrix of an arbitrary stack of reciprocal plane-parallel plates that has been turned through 180 degrees about an axis in the plane of the stack is the transpose of the transmission matrix of the unturned slab with a change in the sign of the off-diagonal elements.
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Quasi binormal Schrodinger evolution of wave polarizatıon field of light wıth repulsive type
TL;DR: In this paper, a geometric interpretation of the quasi binormal evolution of the wave polarization vector via the nonlinear Schrodinger equation of repulsive type in the tangent direction is presented.
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Dynamics of defects in the vector complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
TL;DR: In this article, a vector complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation is considered for the case of vector defects and a transition between different regimes of spatiotemporal dynamics is described.
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Measurement of the Pancharatnam─Berry phase in two-beam interference
Antti Hannonen,Henri Partanen,Aleksi Leinonen,Janne Heikkinen,Tommi K. Hakala,Ari T. Friberg,Tero Setälä +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the dynamical phase across the interference pattern can be deciphered from the total phase, thereby leaving only the geometric phase for Young's dual-pinhole interference experiment with arbitrary fully correlated and polarized vector light fields.
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Principles of Optics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss various topics about optics, such as geometrical theories, image forming instruments, and optics of metals and crystals, including interference, interferometers, and diffraction.
Principles of Optics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss various topics about optics, such as geometrical theories, image forming instruments, and optics of metals and crystals, including interference, interferometers, and diffraction.
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The physics of liquid crystals
P. G. de Gennes,Richard Alben +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define an order parameter statistical theories of the nematic order phenomonological description of the nematic-isotopic mixtures and describe the properties of these mixtures.
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Ellipsometry and polarized light
TL;DR: In this article, the polarization of light waves and propagation of polarized light through polarizing optical systems are discussed. But the authors focus on the application of ellipsometry in the field of measurement in ellipsometer systems.