Polarization singularities in 2D and 3D speckle fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Flossmann, Florian ^a   O'Holleran, Kevin ^a   Dennis, Mark R ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECKLE;

LASER SPECKLE FIELDS; POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 44249125509     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.203902     Document Type: Article

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