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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 42, Issue 14, Pages 2667-2670Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.002667
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [257517]
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We demonstrate an innovative technique based on the Pancharatnam-Berry phase that can be used to determine whether an optical system characterized by a Jones matrix is homogeneous or inhomogeneous, containing orthogonal or nonorthogonal eigenpolarizations, respectively. Homogeneous systems have a symmetric geometric phase morphology showing line dislocations and sets of polarization states with an equal geometric phase. In contrast, the morphology of inhomogeneous systems exhibits phase singularities, where the Pancharatnam-Berry phase is undetermined. The results show an alternative to extract polarization properties such as diattenuation and retardance, and can be used to study the transformation of space-variant polarized beams. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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