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Single pulse data on radio pulsar polarization are traditionally presented in the form of two-dimentional greyscale patterns with the pulse longitude and polarization angle (PA) on the horizontal and vertical axis, respectively. Such…

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We study the polarization dynamics of a spatially expanding polariton condensate under nonresonant linearly polarized optical excitation. The spatially and temporally resolved polariton emission reveals the formation of non-trivial spin…

The Stokes-parameter operators and the associated Poincare sphere, which describe the quantum-optical polarization properties of light, are defined and their basic properties are reviewed. The general features of the Stokes operators are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Natalia Korolkova , Gerd Leuchs , Rodney Loudon , Timothy C. Ralph , Christine Silberhorn

Stokes parameters (${\bf S}$) in Poincar\'e sphere are very useful values to describe the polarisation state of photons. However, the fundamental principle of the nature of polarisation is not completely understood, yet, because we have no…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shinichi Saito

A theoretical framework is introduced to model the dynamical changes of the state of polarization during transmission in coherent fibre-optic systems. The model generalizes the one-dimensional phase noise random walk to higher dimensions,…

Polarization of light signifies transversal, anisotropic and asymmetrical statistical property of electromagnetic radiation about direction of propagation. Traditionally, optical-polarization is characterized by Stokes theory susceptible to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ravi S. Singh , Hari Prakash

The spatiotemporal sculpturing of light beams with arbitrary phase and polarization topologies has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential to advance optical technologies and reveal novel physical phenomena.…

We analyse the polarisation properties of full Poincar\'e beams. We consider different configurations, such as Laguerre-Poincar\'e, Bessel-Poincar\'e, and Lambert-Poincar\'e beams. The former is the original Poincar\'e beam produced by a…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-02 Dorilian Lopez-Mago

Radio polarimetry is a three-dimensional statistical problem. The three-dimensional aspect of the problem arises from the Stokes parameters Q, U, and V, which completely describe the polarization of electromagnetic radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. M. McKinnon

Dynamic manipulation of arbitrary light polarization is of fundamental importance for versatile optical functionalities, yet realizing such full-Poincar\'e-sphere control within compact nanophotonic architectures remains a formidable…

The Poincar\'e sphere is a graphical representation in a three-dimensional space for the polarization of light. Similarly, an optical element with spatially varying birefringence can be represented by a surface on a four-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Anthony Vella , Miguel A. Alonso

Polarimetric studies of pulsar radio emission traditionally concentrate on how the Stokes vector (I, Q, U, V) varies with pulse longitude, with special emphasis on the position angle (PA) swing of the linearly polarized component. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-08 C. T. Y. Chung , A. Melatos

We report the first direct experimental characterization of continuous variable quantum Stokes parameters. We generate a continuous wave light beam with more than 3 dB of simultaneous squeezing in three of the four Stokes parameters. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Warwick P. Bowen , Roman Schnabel , Hans -A. Bachor , Ping Koy Lam

Aims. We aim to expand our understanding of radio wave emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere by studying the polarization of drifting sub-pulses in highly sensitive observations of PSR~B1919+21 recorded at the Arecibo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 N. Primak , C. Tiburzi , W. van Straten , J. Dyks , S. Gulyaev

Polarization quasi-probability distribution (PQPD) is defined in the Stokes space, and it enables the calculation of mean values and higher-order moments for polarization observables using simple algebraic averaging. It can be reconstructed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 M. V. Chekhova , F. Ya. Khalili

We show that Skyrmion field lines, constructed from the local Stokes parameters, trace out lines of constant optical polarisation.

Optics · Physics 2023-08-07 Stephen M. Barnett , Fiona C. Speirits , Joerg B. Goette

We present a stochastic description of multiple scattering of polarized waves in the regime of forward scattering. In this regime, if the source is polarized, polarization survives along a few transport mean free paths, making it possible…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-19 Jérémie Boulanger , Nicolas le Bihan , Vincent Rossetto

It was generally assumed that the Stokes parameters are complete characterization for the state of polarization of a plane light wave so that their counterparts in quantum optics, called the Stokes operators, represent the polarization of…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-25 Chun-Fang Li , Zhi-Juan Hu

Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths