Multi-twist polarization ribbon topologies in highly-confined optical fields

Electromagnetic plane waves, solutions to Maxwell’s equations, are said to be ‘transverse’ in vacuum. Namely, the waves’ oscillatory electric and magnetic fields are confined within a plane transverse to the waves’ propagation direction. Under tight-focusing conditions however, the field can exhibit...

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Bibliographic Details

Published in:	New Journal of Physics
Main Authors:	Thomas Bauer, Peter Banzer, Frédéric Bouchard, Sergej Orlov, Lorenzo Marrucci, Enrico Santamato, Robert W Boyd, Ebrahim Karimi, Gerd Leuchs
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Subjects:	ribbon topology tight-focusing beams polarization topology
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab171b