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, , of topological charge , and order of symmetry . 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}
}