Base Information
Volume
V52 - N3 / 2019 Ordinario
Reference
51027: 1-10
DOI
http://doi.org/10.7149/OPA.52.3.51027
Language
English
Keywords
Conical refraction, crystal optics, polarization, optical trapping, optical communications.
Abstract
In 1832 Hamilton predicted that a collimated light beam propagating through a biaxial crystal parallel to one of its optic axes refracts as a slanted cone within the crystal and emerges as a hollow light cylinder, this optical effect being named as conical refraction (CR). The diffractive solution of CR presented by Belsky and Khapalyuk in 1978 and the corresponding reformulation carried out by Berry in 2004 rekindled this old and almost forgotten phenomenon. This article reviews the CR phenomenon and uses the singular properties of the CR beams to describe different applications of CR in the fields such as optical trapping and free-space optical communications.
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