Light propagation through a coiled optical fiber and Pancharatnam phase

Bhandari, R.

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dc.contributor.author	Bhandari, R.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2007-10-05T10:08:29Z	-
dc.date.available	2007-10-05T10:08:29Z	-
dc.date.issued	2007-08	-
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2007, Vol. 24, p2343-2348	en
dc.identifier.issn	E-ISSN: 1520-8540	-
dc.identifier.issn	P-ISSN: 0740-3224	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3344	-
dc.description	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)	en
dc.description.abstract	The nature of changes in the interference pattern caused by the presence of polarization-changing elements in one or both beams of an interferometer, in particular those caused by an effective optical activity due to passage of a polarized beam through a coiled optical fiber, are clarified. It is pointed out that, for an incident state that is not circularly polarized so that the two interfering beams go to different polarization states, there is an observable nonzero Pancharatnam phase shift between them that depends on the incident polarization state and on the solid angle subtended by the track of the k→ vector at the center of the sphere of k→ vectors. The behavior of this phase shift is singular when the two interfering states are nearly orthogonal. It is shown that, for zero path difference between the two beams, the amplitude of intensity modulation as a function of optical activity is independent of the incident polarization state.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	-
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Optical Society of America	en
dc.relation.uri	http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4582	en
dc.relation.uri	http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-24-9-2343	en
dc.rights	2007 The Optical Society of America	en
dc.subject	Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics	en
dc.subject	Physical optics : Interference	en
dc.subject	Physical optics : Polarization	en
dc.subject	Other areas of optics : Berry's phase	en
dc.title	Light propagation through a coiled optical fiber and Pancharatnam phase	en
dc.type	Article	en
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