Paraxial propagation in disclinated amorphous media

Details Paraxial propagation in disclinated amorphous media Paraxial propagation in disclinated amorphous media

2011-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/1106.5892v1

Physica B 406 (2011) 3671

Physics

Optics

To appear in Physica B (2011)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physb.2011.06.069

We study paraxial beam propagation along the wedge axis of a disclinated amorphous medium. The defect-induced inhomogeneity results in Berry phase and curvature that are affected by the induced uniaxial anisotropy. The Berry phase manifests itself as a precession of the polarization vector. The Berry curvature is responsible for the optical spin Hall effect in the disclinated medium, where beam deflection varies sinusoidally along the paraxial direction. Its application in determining the birefringence and the magnitude of the Frank vector is explained.

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