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Optics and Spectroscopy, 2022 Volume 130, Issue 8, Pages 1174–1180 (Mi os1804)

Physical optics

Spatial dynamics of light quasispin vector in an anisotropic medium with twisting

L. S. Aslanyan, A. E. Ayvazyan

Yerevan State University, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia

Abstract: On the Poincar's sphere the spatial evolution of the light's polarization state has been studied quantitatively in the smoothly inhomogeneous anisotropic media with gyrotropy. The main features of the dependence on the samples thickness, the gyration vector and the azimuth of the polarization of the incident linearly polarized wave were revealed. An analytical solution of the system of coupled equations relative to Cartesian components of light's wave electric component obtained by transition to rotating coordinate system has been used for analysis.

Keywords: Poincar' sphere, polarization evolution, medium with gyrotropy, rotating coordinate system.

Received: 10.03.2022
Revised: 24.05.2022
Accepted: 25.05.2022

DOI: 10.21883/OS.2022.08.52903.3295-22



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