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Engineering monstar polarization disclination through geometric phase

Optics 2023-02-10 v2

Abstract

We present a method to generate monstar singularities via Pancharatnam-Berry phase by the coherent collinear superposition of two Free-Form Dark Hollow beams, FFDHqmFFDH^{m}_{q}, of topological charge qq, and order of symmetry mm. FFDH beams are generated with the geometrical parameters of a closed curve exploited to obtain a nonuniform rotation rate of the local polarization azimuth and generate monstar patterns. We report space-variant polarization patterns: radial- and azimuthal-like, lemon- and star-like for symmetric disclinations, and the asymmetric monstar disclination. We present theory and measurements, and find excellent agreement between the two.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.03472,
  title  = {Engineering monstar polarization disclination through geometric phase},
  author = {Veronica Vicuna-hernandez and Pegah Darvehi and Lorenzo Marrucci and Bruno Piccirillo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03472},
  year   = {2023}
}
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