Visualization of electromagnetic-wave polarization evolution using the Poincaré sphere

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2221-2223

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Dissanayake, Chethiya ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY BEAMS; BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR MEDIA; POINCARE; POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; POLARIZATION ROTATION; POLARIZED LIGHT; TIME DOMAIN MODELING; WAVE POLARIZATIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SPHERES; VISUALIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 77954962715     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.002221     Document Type: Article

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