Transpose symmetry of the Jones matrix and topological phases
| dc.additional | Erratum published in Optics Letters, Vol.33, p2985, 2008 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bhandari, R | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-01T11:11:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-07-01T11:11:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-04 | |
| dc.description | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The transmission Jones matrix of an arbitrary stack of reciprocal plane-parallel plates that has been turned through 180° about an axis in the plane of the stack is, in an appropriate basis, the transpose of the transmission matrix of the unturned slab with a change in the sign of the off-diagonal elements. We prove this convention-free result for the case where reflection at the interfaces can be ignored and use it to devise an experimental scheme to separate isotropic and topological phase changes in a reciprocal optical medium. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Optics Letters, 2008, Vol.33, p854 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | ISSN: 0146-9592 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | ISSN: 1539-4794 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3583 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Optical Society of America | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.000854 | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2771 | en |
| dc.rights | 2008 Optical Society of America | en |
| dc.subject | Optical devices: Beam splitters | en |
| dc.subject | Optical devices : Polarization-selective devices | en |
| dc.subject | Optical devices : Multilayers | en |
| dc.subject | Physical optics : Polarization | en |
| dc.title | Transpose symmetry of the Jones matrix and topological phases | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |