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Comment on "Higher Order Pancharatnam-Berry Phase and the Angular Momentum of Light"

Optics 2016-02-09 v1

Abstract

In a recent letter, Milione et al. reported the Pancharatnam-Berry phase (PBP) on a higher-order Poincar\'e sphere (HOPS) [Phys. Rev. Lett, 108, 190401 (2012)]. They used two spin-orbit converters (SOCs) to make a trajectory along the HOPS. However, the SOCs actually do not make a path on the HOPS. We briefly discuss a way of acquiring a PBP made by SOCs.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02471,
  title  = {Comment on "Higher Order Pancharatnam-Berry Phase and the Angular Momentum of Light"},
  author = {Masato Suzuki and Keisaku Yamane and Kazuhiko Oka and Yasunori Toda and Ryuji Morita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02471},
  year   = {2016}
}