Interferometric methods in diagnostics of polarization singularities

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Mar;65(3 Pt 2B):036602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036602. Epub 2002 Feb 7.

Abstract

An interferometric technique for analysis of a polarization singular skeleton (s contours and C points) of an optical vector field is elaborated. It was shown that complete characteristics of C points and s contours may be reconstructed from interferometric data. Some examples of elaborated interferometric technique application to the analysis of randomly polarized speckle-fields singularities are presented.