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    • Impossibility of a continuous phase convention for polarised light

      Rajaram Nityananda

      Optics Volume 12 Issue 3 March 1979 pp 257-262

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    • Keywords

       

      Poincare sphere; polarised light

    • Abstract

       

      The possibility of extending the well known Poincare sphere representation of polarised light to include phase is considered. Any attempt to define the zero of phase for each vibration represented on the Poincare sphere runs into discontinuities at at least one point. These are shown to be inevitable using a topological argument.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Rajaram Nityananda1

      1. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore - 560 006

    • Dates

       
      Published
      March 1979
      Manuscript received
      20 September 1978
      Manuscript revised
      4 January 1979

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