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  • Title: Geometric phase morphology of Jones matrices.
    Author: Lopez-Mago D, Canales-Benavides A, Hernandez-Aranda RI, Gutiérrez-Vega JC.
    Journal: Opt Lett; 2017 Jul 15; 42(14):2667-2670. PubMed ID: 28708139.
    Abstract:
    We demonstrate an innovative technique based on the Pancharatnam-Berry phase that can be used to determine whether an optical system characterized by a Jones matrix is homogeneous or inhomogeneous, containing orthogonal or nonorthogonal eigenpolarizations, respectively. Homogeneous systems have a symmetric geometric phase morphology showing line dislocations and sets of polarization states with an equal geometric phase. In contrast, the morphology of inhomogeneous systems exhibits phase singularities, where the Pancharatnam-Berry phase is undetermined. The results show an alternative to extract polarization properties such as diattenuation and retardance, and can be used to study the transformation of space-variant polarized beams.
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