Charge inversion of polarization correlation vortex

Himangi J. Pandit; Vijay Kumar; R. P. Singh

doi:10.1117/12.2615150

20 December 2021 Charge inversion of polarization correlation vortex

Himangi J. Pandit, Vijay Kumar, R. P. Singh

Proceedings Volume 12126, Fifteenth International Conference on Correlation Optics; 1212607 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2615150
Event: Fifteenth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 2021, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Abstract

Optical Speckles has many extraordinary applications like subwavelength focusing, aberration-free imaging, etc. which are not possible even with a highly coherent optical field. This makes it necessary to study the fundamental properties of such Optical Speckle fields. In the recent past, the polarization correlation vortex phase was experimentally realized in vector speckle field generated by scattering of Poincare beam. Higher-order correlations have also been studied in such vector speckle fields. Moving further into this direction, we have studied the first-order polarization correlations in the focused vector speckle field. We have generated a vector speckle field by scattering of Poincare beam. Which is then allowed to be focused using a spherical and a cylindrical lens. The focused vector speckle field intensities at different planes around the focal plane were recorded to get polarization correlations at each plane. It was observed that the charge of the input vortex beam before scattering is still present in the polarization correlation of the focused vector speckle field. We have also observed charge inversion of polarization correlation vortex focused through a cylindrical lens. The importance of this study relies in the fact that it provides, with supporting experimental and simulation results, that the polarization correlation obeys the wave equation. It could find application in optical image processing while analyzing any optical data, to find information about the source of the speckles, etc.

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Himangi J. Pandit, Vijay Kumar, and R. P. Singh "Charge inversion of polarization correlation vortex", Proc. SPIE 12126, Fifteenth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 1212607 (20 December 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2615150

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