V.L. Ginzburg's helical elliptic polarization modes and their application

G.B. Malykin
Federal Research Center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ulyanova 46, Nizhny Novgorod, 603000, Russian Federation

In 1943 V.L. Ginzburg derived a simple and elegant solution to the polarization optics problem for the case where a linear birefringent medium is uniformly twisted along the optical axis. In a torsion-comoving helical coordinate frame, mutually orthogonal polarization eigenmodes of such optical medium are characterized by two ellipses with the electric field vector bypassed in the opposite sense. Current applications of V.L. Ginzburg's theory are reviewed.

Keywords: polarization modes, helical system of coordinates, history of physics
PACS: 01.65.+g, 41.20.Jb, 42.25.Lc (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.2016.11.037984
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2016/12/e/
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Citation: Malykin G B "V.L. Ginzburg's helical elliptic polarization modes and their application" Phys. Usp. 59 1245–1248 (2016)

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Received: 14th, April 2016, revised: 23rd, May 2016, accepted: 11th, November 2016

Оригинал: Малыкин Г Б «Винтовые эллиптические поляризационные моды В.Л. Гинзбурга и их применение» УФН 186 1355–1358 (2016); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2016.11.037984

V.L. Ginzburg is author and editor of Physics-Uspekhi

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