Polarization-controlled evolution of light transverse modes and associated Pancharatnam geometric phase in orbital angular momentum

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Karimi, Ebrahim ^a,b   Slussarenko, Sergei ^a,c   Piccirillo, Bruno ^a,c   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^a,b   Santamato, Enrico ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOVE PRISM; EIGENSTATES; FAST METHODS; GEOMETRIC PHASE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM STATE; OUTPUT BEAM; POINCARE; POLARIZING INTERFEROMETER; SCATTERING LOSS; TRANSVERSE MODE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77952372123     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053813     Document Type: Article

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