Coherency matrix description of optical polarization singularities

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Freund, Isaac ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coherency matrix; Polarization; Singularities

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MONOCHROMATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

COHERENCY MATRIX; INTEGRAL MULTIPLES; SINGULARITIES; WINDING NUMBERS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 2542506439     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/6/5/015     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Born M and Wolf E W 1959 Principles of Optics (Oxford: Pergamon)
2. Kessler D A and Freund I 2003 Lissajous singularities Opt. Lett. 28 111-3
3. Nye J F 1999 Natural Focusing and the Fine Structure of Light (Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing)
4. Nye J F 1983 Polarization effects in the diffraction of electromagnetic waves: the role of disclinations Proc. R. Soc. A 387 105-32
5. Freund I 2003 Bichromatic optical Lissajous fields Opt. Commun. 226 351-76
6. Nye J F and Hajnal J V 1987 The wave structure of monochromatic electromagnetic radiation Proc. R. Soc. A 409 21-36
7. Berry M V and Dennis M R 2001 Polarization singularities in Isotropic random vector waves Proc. R. Soc. A 457 141-55
8. Dolgov A D, Doroshkevich A G, Novikov D I and Novikov I D 1999 Classification of singular points in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and eigenvectors of the Stokes matrix JETP Lett. 69 427-33
9. Konukhov A I and Melnikov L A 2001 Optical vortices in a vector field: the general definition based on the analogy with topological solitons in a 2D ferromagnet, and examples from the polarization transverse patterns in a laser J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 3 S139-44
10. Freund I 2001 Poincaré vortices Opt. Lett. 26 1996-8
11. Nye J F 1983 Lines of circular polarization in electromagnetic wave fields Proc. R. Soc. A 389 279-90