THE UNBOUNDED NATURE OF GEOMETRICAL AND DYNAMICAL PHASES IN POLARIZATION OPTICS

Authors
LOVE GD
Citation
Gd. Love, THE UNBOUNDED NATURE OF GEOMETRICAL AND DYNAMICAL PHASES IN POLARIZATION OPTICS, Optics communications, 131(4-6), 1996, pp. 236-240
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
131
Issue
4-6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
236 - 240
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)131:4-6<236:TUNOGA>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
An analysis of two experiments which have been used to demonstrate tha t the Pancharatnam phase is unbounded is presented. This highlights th e origin of both the geometrical and the dynamical components of the o bserved phase changes, and clarifies the differences between geometric al and dynamical phase shifts > 2 pi.