Observation of polarization topological singular lines

Guan-Lin Zhang; Chenghou Tu; Yongnan Li; Hui-Tian Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000705

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 6, 705(2019)

Observation of polarization topological singular lines

Guan-Lin Zhang¹, Chenghou Tu¹, Yongnan Li^1,2, and Hui-Tian Wang^3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²e-mail: liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn

³National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Dec. 12, 2018

Accepted: Apr. 10, 2019

Published Online: Jun. 4, 2019

The Author Email: Hui-Tian Wang (htwang@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000705

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