Berry Phase of Light under Bragg Reflection by Chiral Liquid-Crystal Media
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Berry Phase of Light under Bragg Reflection by Chiral Liquid-Crystal Media.
A Berry phase is revealed for circularly polarized light when it is Bragg reflected by a chiral liquid-crystal medium of the same handedness. By using a chiral nematic layer we demonstrate that if the input plane of the layer is rotated with respect to a fixed reference frame, a geometric phase effect occurs for the circularly polarized light reflected by the periodic helical structure of the m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.053903