Interactions of space-variant polarization beams with Zeeman-shifted rubidium vapor
Optics
2015-01-20 v1
Abstract
Space variant beams are of great importance as a variety of applications have emerged in recent years. As such, manipulation of their degrees of freedom is highly desired. Here, by exploiting the circular dichroism and circular birefringence in a Zeeman-shifted Rb medium, we study the general interaction of space variant beams with such a medium. We present two particular cases of radial polarization and hybrid polarization beams where the control of the polarization states is demonstrated experimentally. Moreover, we show that a Zeeman-shifted atomic system can be used as an analyzer for such space variant beams
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@article{arxiv.1501.04218,
title = {Interactions of space-variant polarization beams with Zeeman-shifted rubidium vapor},
author = {Anat Szapiro and Liron Stern and Uriel Levy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04218},
year = {2015}
}