Young's two-slit interference of vector light fields.
We explore the peculiar interference behaviors of the vector fields in the Young's two-slit configuration. The interference patterns have a chessboard structure in the middle region and depend on the topological charge and the initial phase of the input vector field. The results have potential applications such as characterizing the topological properties of the arbitrary vector fields.
School of Physics and MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
Yongnan
Y
Li
Xi-Lin
XL
Wang
Hu
H
Zhao
Ling-Jun
LJ
Kong
Kai
K
Lou
Bing
B
Gu
Chenghou
C
Tu
Hui-Tian
HT
Wang