Creating polarization singularities with an N -pinhole interferometer

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Schoonover, Robert W ^a,b   Visser, Taco D ^c,d  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR POLARIZATIONS; LINEARLY POLARIZED FIELDS; PINHOLE INTERFEROMETERS; POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; RICH STRUCTURES; SCALAR WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 65549123096     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.043809     Document Type: Article

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