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Generation of Full Poincaré Beams on Arbitrary Order Poincaré Sphere

  • Wang, Jue (School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Wang, Lin (School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Xin, Yu (School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2017.10.09
  • Accepted : 2017.11.17
  • Published : 2017.12.25
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Abstract

We firstly develop a straightforward method to generate full $Poincar{\acute{e}}$ beams with any polarization geometry over an arbitrary order $Poincar{\acute{e}}$ sphere. We implement this by coaxial superposition of two orthogonal circular polarized beams with alternative topological charges with the help of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Secondly we find the existence of singularity points. And the inner relationship between their characteristics and the order of $Poincar{\acute{e}}$ spheres is also studied. In summary, this work provides a convenient and effective way to generate vector beams and to control their polarization states.

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