SCHMITZER, H and KLEIN, S and DULTZ, W (1993) NONLINEARITY OF PANCHARATNAMS TOPOLOGICAL PHASE. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 71 (10). pp. 1530-1533. ISSN 0031-9007,
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Since Berry introduced topological phases to describe the adiabatic transport of the spin of particles in parameter space, they have become a practical and descriptive concept for understanding interference phenomena in many quantum mechanical systems. For the photon two different applications of this concept were found in crystal optics: (1) the optical activity of helically wound optical fibers and (2) the development of the state of polarization on the Poincare sphere. We present a remarkable optical ''nonlinearity'' of certain polarizing interferometers, which we discovered by using the concept of the topological phase on the Poincare sphere and we demonstrate it with a simple experiment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | POLARIZED-LIGHT; GEOMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETER; OPTICS; |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 08:42 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/53775 |
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