A new type of vector fields with hybrid states of polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10786-10795

  Wang, Xi Lin ^a   Li, Yongnan ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Guo, Cheng Shan ^a   Ding, Jianping ^b   Wang, Hui Tian ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

HYBRID STATE; POINCARE; SCALAR AND VECTOR FIELDS; VECTOR FIELDS;

VECTORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952725338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010786     Document Type: Article

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