Creating Complex Optical Longitudinal Polarization Structures
Optics
2018-04-19 v1
Abstract
In this paper we show that it is possible to structure the longitudinal polarization component of light. We illustrate our approach by demonstrating linked and knotted longitudinal vortex lines acquired upon non-paraxially propagating a tightly focused sub-wavelength beam. Remaining degrees of freedom in the transverse polarization components can be exploited to generate customized topological vector beams.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.05668,
title = {Creating Complex Optical Longitudinal Polarization Structures},
author = {F. Maucher and S. Skupin and S. A. Gardiner and I. G. Hughes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05668},
year = {2018}
}