Swings and roundabouts: optical Poincaré spheres for polarization and Gaussian beams

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2015.0441MaRDI QIDQ4644909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. R. Dennis, Miguel A. Alonso

Publication date 9 January 2019

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.10245

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic oscillatorLaguerre-GaussianHermite-Gaussian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Polar materials (74A35)

Abstract: The connection between Poincar'e spheres for polariz-ation and Gaussian beams is explored, focusing on the interpretation of elliptic polarization in terms of the isotropic 2-dimensional harmonic oscillator in Hamiltonian mechanics, its canonical quantization and semiclassical interpretation. This leads to the interpretation of structured Gaussian modes, the Hermite-Gaussian, Laguerre-Gaussian and Generalized Hermite-Laguerre Gaussian modes as eigenfunctions of operators corresponding to the classical constants of motion of the 2-dimensional oscillator, which acquire an extra significance as families of classical ellipses upon semiclassical quantization.

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