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  • Open Access
19 Citations
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Topological Charge of Light Fields with a Polarization Singularity

  • Victor V. Kotlyar,
  • Alexey A. Kovalev and
  • Vladislav D. Zaitsev

We have studied diverse vector and hybrid light fields, including those with multiple polarization singularities, and have derived relationships for polarization singularity indices based on the familiar Berry formula, which is normally utilized to f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,183 Views
14 Pages

Sharp Focusing of a Hybrid Vector Beam with a Polarization Singularity

  • Victor V. Kotlyar,
  • Sergey S. Stafeev and
  • Anton G. Nalimov

The key result of this work is the use of the global characteristics of the polarization singularities of the entire beam as a whole, rather than the analysis of local polarization, Stokes and Poincare–Hopf indices. We extend Berry’s concept of the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,508 Views
13 Pages

21 July 2023

Elements of micromachines can be driven by light, including structured light with phase and/or polarization singularities. We investigate here a paraxial vector Gaussian beam with an infinite number of polarization singularities residing evenly on a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,213 Views
18 Pages

Spin Hall Effect in the Paraxial Light Beams with Multiple Polarization Singularities

  • Alexey A. Kovalev,
  • Victor V. Kotlyar and
  • Sergey S. Stafeev

30 March 2023

Elements of micromachines can be driven by light, including structured light with phase and/or polarization singularities. We investigate a paraxial vectorial Gaussian beam with multiple polarization singularities residing on a circle. Such a beam is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2025

The complex analytic continuation can be developed to enable the Gauss-Krüger projection to be non-zonal and non-singular in polar regions. The series expansion of the traditional Gauss-Krüger projection in terms of third flattening has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,934 Views
16 Pages

Nonparaxial propagation of the vector vortex light beams in free space was investigated theoretically. Propagation-induced polarization changes in vector light beams with different spatial intensity distributions were analyzed. It is shown that the h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,000 Views
8 Pages

Compound Vector Light Generator Based on a Metasurface

  • Changda Zhou,
  • Zhen Mou,
  • Peiyao Lu and
  • Shuyun Teng

In view of wide applications of vector light with a non-uniform polarization state, a compound vector light generator is proposed to generate compound vector light. One compound vector light contains two or more non-uniform polarization modes and sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
674 Views
8 Pages

On-Demand Photopatterned Twisted Nematics for Generation of Polychromatic Vector Fields

  • Edvard Grigoryan,
  • Hayk H. Harutyunyan,
  • Hrayr Hakobyan,
  • Sergey A. Shvetsov,
  • Tetiana Orlova,
  • Mushegh Rafayelyan and
  • Vahram L. Grigoryan

11 October 2025

A simple and efficient approach to spatially addressed polychromatic modulation of light polarization using a photopatterned nematic liquid crystal film is proposed and investigated. In particular, we demonstrate linear polarization structuring of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,019 Views
15 Pages

22 January 2024

Analogous to the Poincaré sphere, a hybrid order Poincaré sphere is used to represent the ellipse field singularities (C-points). We study the tight focusing properties of generic bright and dark hybrid order Poincaré sphere beam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,046 Views
14 Pages

Polarization Strips in the Focus of a Generalized Poincaré Beam

  • Victor V. Kotlyar,
  • Alexey A. Kovalev,
  • Alexey M. Telegin and
  • Elena Sergeevna Kozlova

We analyze the tight focusing of a generalized Poincaré beam using a Richards–Wolf formalism. Conventional Poincaré beams are superpositions of two Laguerre–Gaussian beams with orthogonal polarization, while the generalized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,031 Views
15 Pages

Creating and Controlling Polarization Singularities in Plasmonic Fields

  • Anouk De Hoogh,
  • L. Kuipers,
  • Taco D. Visser and
  • Nir Rotenberg

22 May 2015

Nanoscale light fields near nanoplasmonic objects can be highly structured and can contain highly-subwavelength features. Here, we present the results of our search for the simplest plasmonic system that contains, and can be used to control, the smal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,438 Views
11 Pages

13 September 2022

We present the results of a study of the Poynting vector field generic singularities at the resonant light scattering of a plane monochromatic linearly polarized electromagnetic wave by a subwavelength particle. We reveal the impact of the problem sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,171 Views
9 Pages

The diffusiophoretic migration of a circular cylindrical particle in a nonelectrolyte solution with a solute concentration gradient normal to its axis is analytically studied for a small but finite Péclet number P e . The interfacial la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,975 Views
10 Pages

20 February 2019

An infinite wedge of orthotropic material is confined between two rotating planar rough plates, which are inclined at an angle 2α. An instantaneous boundary value problem for the flow of the material is formulated and solved for the stress and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,046 Views
15 Pages

The recognition, decoding and tracking of vortex patterns is of increasing importance in many fields, ranging from the astronomical observations of distant galaxies to turbulence phenomena in liquids or gases. Currently, coherent light beams with orb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,753 Views
10 Pages

Vector Beams with Only Transverse Intensity at Focus

  • Sergey S. Stafeev,
  • Nikita N. Kazakov,
  • Vladislav D. Zaitsev,
  • Sergey D. Poletayev and
  • Victor V. Kotlyar

20 November 2023

In this work, the tight focusing of vector beams with azimuthal polarization and beams with a V-line of polarization singularity (sector azimuthal polarization) was simulated numerically using the Richards–Wolf formulas. It was demonstrated tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,391 Views
17 Pages

Matter Accretion Versus Semiclassical Bounce in Schwarzschild Interior

  • Kirill Bronnikov,
  • Sergey Bolokhov and
  • Milena Skvortsova

14 October 2020

We discuss the properties of the previously constructed model of a Schwarzschild black hole interior where the singularity is replaced by a regular bounce, ultimately leading to a white hole. We assume that the black hole is young enough so that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,074 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2023

In this work, studies are carried out in the field of optical singular beams that have passed through gyrotropic crystals. We have experimentally shown that singular beams with a helical intensity distribution are formed when passing through a system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2025

In this paper, we present a Mirsky-type unitarily invariant norm inequality for dual quaternion matrices, which can be regarded as a singular value perturbation theorem for dual quaternion matrices. By using this unitarily invariant norm inequality,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,205 Views
11 Pages

Due to a trend to higher sustainability, biodiesel is often mixed into petrodiesel. The analysis of these blends on a molecular level is not trivial, since huge differences in concentrations and polarity of the analytes require a large dynamic range...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,621 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2022

In the theory of cosmology, de Sitter space is the symmetrical model of accelerated expansions of the universe. It is derived from the solution of the Einstein field equation, which has a positive cosmological constant. In this paper, we define the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,389 Views
14 Pages

Traditional ideas about linearly polarized paraxial beam propagation along the optical axis of a uniaxial crystal suggest that at the crystal exit face, after propagation through the polarizer, the beam will form an intensity distribution in the form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,672 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2024

This paper presents a novel method for generating and shaping reverse energy flow through the interference of light fields from a minimal number of point light sources. Until now, reverse energy flow has only been observed using complex light fields,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,736 Views
14 Pages

29 September 2023

The generation of Bessel beams (BBs) and their characterization in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum are well established. The unique properties of BBs, including their non-diffracting and self-healing nature, make them efficient for use i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,826 Views
23 Pages

18 June 2024

In off-boundary computations of layer potentials, the near-singularities in integrals near the boundary presents challenges for conventional quadrature methods in achieving high precision. Additionally, the significant complexity of O(n2) interaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,407 Views
8 Pages

Angular Momentum of Leaky Modes in Hollow-Core Fibers

  • Grigory Alagashev,
  • Sergey Stafeev,
  • Victor Kotlyar and
  • Andrey Pryamikov

21 October 2022

It is known that angular momentum (AM) is an important characteristic of light, which can be separated into the spin (SAM) and orbital parts (OAM). The dynamical properties of the spin and orbital angular momentums are determined by the polarization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,343 Views
20 Pages

Vacuum Polarization Instead of “Dark Matter” in a Galaxy

  • Sergey L. Cherkas and
  • Vladimir L. Kalashnikov

1 September 2022

We considered a vacuum polarization inside a galaxy in the eikonal approximation and found that two possible types of polarization exist. The first type is described by the equation of state p=ρ/3, similar to radiation. Using the conformally unim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,452 Views
13 Pages

Improving Inversion Quality of IP-Affected TEM Data Using Dual Source

  • Qingquan Zhi,
  • Junjie Wu,
  • Xiu Li,
  • Xingchun Wang and
  • Xiaohong Deng

28 May 2022

The induced polarization (IP) effects in transient electromagnetic (TEM) responses pose difficulties to the TEM data interpretation and inversion. The IP effects break the monotony in TEM decay curves and can even cause sign reversals and lead to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,749 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, the multifractal properties of the ion current time series in the fast-activating vacuolar (FV) channels of Beta vulgaris L. taproot cells were investigated. These channels are permeable for only monovalent cations and mediate K+ at ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,845 Views
19 Pages

Vector Vortex Beams: Theory, Generation, and Detection of Laguerre–Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian Types

  • Xin Yan,
  • Xin Tao,
  • Minghao Guo,
  • Chunliang Zhou,
  • Jingzhao Chen,
  • Guanyu Shang and
  • Peng Li

17 October 2025

A vector vortex beam (VVB) combines the phase singularity of a vortex beam (VB) with the anisotropic polarization of a vector beam, enabling the transmission of complex optical information and offering broad application prospects in optical sensing,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Views
12 Pages

Study on 1064 nm High-Purity, High-Beam-Quality Cylindrical Vector Beams Laser

  • Ying Li,
  • Zhaochen Lv,
  • Yu Ding,
  • Qingxuan Li,
  • Nanhui Xia,
  • Chenpeng Deng,
  • Zhenghua Tong,
  • Fushang Liu,
  • Anru Yan and
  • Zhiyong Wang
  • + 2 authors

25 November 2025

To generate cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) with high mode purity and high beam quality, a polarization-maintaining fiber oscillator was built, followed by high-efficiency mode conversion with an S-waveplate. This system leverages the S-waveplate as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,042 Views
11 Pages

The Quadruple Gaussian Airy Beam and Its Propagation Properties

  • Xu-Zhen Gao,
  • Guo-Dong Tan,
  • Ren-De Ma,
  • Shi-Tong Xu,
  • Ming-Sheng Niu,
  • Hong-Zhong Cao,
  • Zhong-Xiao Man and
  • Yue Pan

29 August 2025

In recent years, structured light with novel propagation properties has attracted great attention. Among these structured beams, the Airy beam is one of the most representative and widely used beams. In this paper, we propose a kind of quadruple Gaus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,151 Views
22 Pages

11 February 2025

Alternative scenarios where the Big Bang singularity of the standard cosmological model is replaced by a bounce, or by an early almost static phase (known as emergent universe) have been frequently studied. We investigate the role of the spinor degre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,719 Views
27 Pages

Polarization-Mode Transformation of the Light Field during Diffraction on Amplitude Binary Gratings

  • Pavel A. Khorin,
  • Mariia P. Mamaeva,
  • Yury V. Kapitonov and
  • Svetlana N. Khonina

6 September 2024

In this paper, a comparative analysis and numerical simulation of operation of two types of amplitude binary gratings (conventional and fork), both in the focal plane and near-field diffraction under illumination by mode beams with different polariza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,344 Views
13 Pages

We investigate the propagation properties of circular Airy beams (CABs) with propagational fractional-order optical vortices (OVs). The superposition of the phase singularity and polarization singularity from a vortex vector beam (VVB) plays a signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,571 Views
31 Pages

31 December 2024

We compute the generalized spin precession frequency (Ωp) of a test gyroscope in a stationary spacetime, specifically for a Kerr–MOG black hole within the framework of scalar–tensor–vector gravity (STVG), also known as modifie...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,463 Views
18 Pages

Dispersive Optical Solitons for Stochastic Fokas-Lenells Equation With Multiplicative White Noise

  • Elsayed M. E. Zayed,
  • Mahmoud El-Horbaty,
  • Mohamed E. M. Alngar and
  • Mona El-Shater

28 November 2022

For the first time, we study the Fokas–Lenells equation in polarization preserving fibers with multiplicative white noise in Itô sense. Four integration algorithms are applied, namely, the method of modified simple equation (MMSE), the me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,879 Views
26 Pages

The Importance of Solvent Effects on the Mechanism of the Pfeiffer Effect

  • Jamie L. Lunkley,
  • Ngoc M. Nguyen,
  • Kristina M. Tuminaro,
  • Dana Margittai and
  • Gilles Muller

The Pfeiffer effect is observed when an optically active compound such as an amino acid is introduced to a solution containing a labile racemic metal complex, and an equilibrium shift is obtained. The “perturbation” results in an excess o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,819 Views
16 Pages

Stacked Polarizing Elements for Controlling Parameters of Surface Relief Gratings Written in Photosensitive Materials

  • Alexey P. Porfirev,
  • Svetlana N. Khonina,
  • Nikolay A. Ivliev,
  • Denis P. Porfirev and
  • Nikolay L. Kazanskiy

10 February 2024

Photosensitive materials are widely used for the direct fabrication of surface relief gratings (SRGs) without the selective etching of the material. It is known that the interferometric approach makes it possible to fabricate SRGs with submicron and...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,245 Views
10 Pages

22 August 2022

Combining the advantages of diversity provided by polarization MIMO radar and good decoherence ability of matrix reconstruction technology, a method for height measurements based on matrix reconstruction after real valued processing is developed. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,824 Views
11 Pages

Lossy Mode Resonance Sensors Based on Anisotropic Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

  • Yanting Shen,
  • Qifeng Zhu,
  • Zhuo Chen,
  • Jiawei Wu,
  • Binghuang Chen,
  • Enwen Dai and
  • Weiqing Pan

23 April 2024

Lossy mode resonance (LMR) sensors offer a promising avenue to surpass the constraints of conventional surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors by delivering enhanced label-free detection capabilities. A notable edge of LMR over SPR is its excitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,491 Views
11 Pages

26 June 2022

Circular airy vortex beams (CAVBs) have attracted much attention due to their “abruptly autofocusing” effect, phase singularity, and their potential applications in optical micromanipulation, communication, etc. In this paper, we numerica...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,026 Views
10 Pages

Poincaré Beams at the Tight Focus: Inseparability, Radial Spin Hall Effect, and Reverse Energy Flow

  • Victor V. Kotlyar,
  • Sergey S. Stafeev,
  • Vladislav D. Zaitsev and
  • Alexey M. Telegin

11 December 2022

The family of Poincaré beams has three parameters, including two real-valued angular parameters, which specify a definite polarization state on the Poincaré sphere, and a third integer parameter n specifying the beam singularity order....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,255 Views
9 Pages

Critical Relaxation in the Quantum Yang–Lee Edge Singularity

  • Yue-Mei Sun,
  • Xinyu Wang and
  • Liang-Jun Zhai

6 February 2025

We study the relaxation dynamics near the critical points of the Yang–Lee edge singularities (YLESs) in the quantum Ising chain in an imaginary longitudinal field with a polarized initial state. We find that scaling behaviors are manifested in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,236 Views
18 Pages

Burn Severity Assessment Using Sentinel-1 SAR in the Southeast Peruvian Amazon, a Case Study of Madre de Dios

  • Gabriel Alarcon-Aguirre,
  • Reynaldo Fabrizzio Miranda Fidhel,
  • Dalmiro Ramos Enciso,
  • Rembrandt Canahuire-Robles,
  • Liset Rodriguez-Achata and
  • Jorge Garate-Quispe

8 July 2022

Fire is one of the significant drivers of vegetation loss and threat to Amazonian landscapes. It is estimated that fires cause about 30% of deforested areas, so the severity level is an important factor in determining the rate of vegetation recovery....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,515 Views
29 Pages

11 February 2024

Ship wake detection using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provides a way to obtain small marine ship information, but it often becomes unavailable and unreliable during a high sea state. Polarimetric information provides a potential way to sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
20,179 Views
12 Pages

On Two Formulations of Polar Motion and Identification of Its Sources

  • Fernando Lopes,
  • Vincent Courtillot,
  • Dominique Gibert and
  • Jean-Louis Le Mouël

26 October 2022

Differences in formulation of the equations of celestial mechanics may result in differences in interpretation. This paper focuses on the Liouville-Euler system of differential equations as first discussed by Laplace. In the “modern” text...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
10,433 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2014

This paper outlines and qualitatively compares the implementations of seven different methods for solving Poisson’s equation on the disk. The methods include two classical finite elements, a cotan formula-based discrete differential geometry approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,587 Views
18 Pages

NDF of Scattered Fields for Strip Geometries

  • Ehsan Akbari Sekehravani,
  • Giovanni Leone and
  • Rocco Pierri

Solving inverse scattering problems by numerical methods requires investigating the number of independent pieces of information that can be reconstructed stably. To this end, we address the evaluation of the Number of Degrees of Freedom (NDF) of far-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,985 Views
7 Pages

Hydrodynamical Simulations of Recollimation Shocks within Relativistic Astrophysical Jets

  • Christopher D. Kaye,
  • Timothy V. Cawthorne and
  • Philip A. Hughes

Astrophysical jets launched from active galactic nuclei can remain tightly collimated over large distances due, in part, to recollimation shocks. Formed within the jets due to their supersonic nature, recollimation shocks are predicted to leave signa...

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