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Numerical Simulation of Hybrid Polarization Singularity Configurations

  • Ye, Dong (Department of Optical Engineering, School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Peng, Xinyu (Department of Optical Engineering, School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Zhou, Muchun (Department of Optical Engineering, School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Song, Minmin (Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Research Institute)
  • Received : 2017.05.24
  • Accepted : 2017.07.24
  • Published : 2017.08.25
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Abstract

In this article, we proposed hybrid polarization singularity configurations, based on the superposition of two orthogonal circularly polarized components, one of which is a light beam with two optical vortices. The topological configurations are the hybridization of lowest-order polarization singularities, but are different from high-order polarization singularities. Our numerical simulation may provide a theoretical basis for expanding the variety of polarization singularity configuration.

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