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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Proposal for a mesoscopic optical berry-phase interferometer
I A Shelykh1, G Pavlovic, D D Solnyshkov
1Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga-3, IS-107, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Physical Review Letters
|March 5, 2009
Abstract:
We propose a novel spin-optronic device based on the interference of polaritonic waves traveling in opposite directions and gaining topological Berry phase. It is governed by the ratio of the TE-TM and Zeeman splittings, which can be used to control the output intensity. Because of the peculiar orientation of the TE-TM effective magnetic field for polaritons, there is no analogue of the Aharonov-Casher phase shift existing for electrons.

