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Optica, Optics Express, 2(31), p. 3017, 2023

DOI: 10.1364/oe.479386

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Quantitative detection of high-order Poincaré sphere beams and their polarization evolution

Journal article published in 2023 by Junna Yao, Xinhua Jiang, Jialang Zhang, Anting Wang, Qiwen Zhan ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The high-order Poincaré sphere (PS) introduces a mapping whereby any vector beams with spatially homogeneous ellipticity are represented by a specific point on the surface of the sphere. We propose the quantitative detection of high-order PS beams by introducing three sets of nonuniform polarization bases in the high-order Stokes parameters. Overall polarization detection is realized by directly separating and measuring the respective intensity of different nonuniform polarization bases based on S-plate. The polarization evolution of the PS beams on the high-order PS and between the conventional and the high-order PS are achieved by S-plate. The results provide new insights for the generation, evolution and detection of arbitrary beams on the high-order PS.