Swings and roundabouts: optical Poincaré spheres for polarization and Gaussian beams

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2015.0441zbMath1404.78015arXiv1611.10245OpenAlexW2558099463WikidataQ48016469 ScholiaQ48016469MaRDI QIDQ4644909

Mark Dennis, Miguel A. Alonso

Publication date: 9 January 2019

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.10245

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic oscillatorLaguerre-GaussianHermite-Gaussian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Polar materials (74A35) Motion of charged particles (78A35)

Related Items (2)

Optical orbital angular momentum ⋮ Global aspects of polarization optics and coset space geometry

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