Integrable isotropic profiles for polarized light
Mher Davtyan, Zhyrair Gevorkian, Armen Nersessian
TL;DR
This paper investigates how polarization affects light propagation in isotropic media and proposes a method to design polarization-dependent profiles that preserve the medium's symmetries, demonstrated on Luneburg and Maxwell's fisheye lenses.
Contribution
It introduces a scheme to construct polarization-dependent refraction indices that restore symmetries broken by polarization effects in isotropic media.
Findings
Polarization breaks symmetries in isotropic refraction profiles.
A scheme to restore symmetries using polarization-dependent profiles.
Application of the scheme to Luneburg and Maxwell's fisheye profiles.
Abstract
We consider the propagation of polarized light in the medium with an isotropic refraction index profile and show that polarization violates the additional symmetries of the medium. Then we suggest a scheme for the construction of polarization-dependent refraction index which restores all symmetries of the initial profile. We illustrate the proposed scheme on the examples of Luneburg and Maxwell's fisheye profiles.
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Taxonomy
TopicsOptical Polarization and Ellipsometry · Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors · Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies