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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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Direct polarization-heterodyne measurement of Kerr-induced birefringence in optical fibers
TL;DR: In this paper, the amount of birefringence induced by nonlinear Kerr effect in standard optical fibers, by means of a double-polarization-heterodyne method, was measured with a resolution of /spl Delta/n/spl ap/10/sup -12/ and the optical Kerr coefficient was extracted.
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Phase properties of several nonlinear optical waves described by rational solutions
Jia-dong Li,Li Meng,Li-Chen Zhao +2 more
TL;DR: In this article , the phase properties of rational W-shaped solitons in the Hirota and Sasa-Satsuma model were investigated, for which some high-order physical effects were considered, such as the third-order dispersion delayed nonlinear response and self-steeping effects.
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Reflective Spin–Orbit Geometric Phase from Planar Isotropic Interface
Z. Bouchal,Zdeněk Bouchal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the Pancharatnam-Berry phase of light reflected from a planar isotropic interface has been demonstrated to overcomes the Brewster angle limitation, and three modes of spin to orbital angular momentum conversion are demonstrated.
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On Geometric Phase from Pure Projections
TL;DR: Bhandari et al. as discussed by the authors showed that the geometric phase can be defined as a function of the strength of singularities giving rise to the phase shift in optical interference experiments.
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Geometric phases of light: insights from fibre bundle theory
TL;DR: In this article , the authors review the role of the Pancharatnam-Berry phase and the spin-redirection phase in the discovery of geometric phases of light and the underlying mechanism for all of these is provided by bundle theory.
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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.