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Measurement of the morphological forms of polarization singularities and their statistical weights in optical vector fields

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Using the developed optical method, elliptically polarized fields were taken as examples for the experimental measurement of all three possible morphological forms in the vicinities of the circular polarization points and of their statistical weights in generic speckle fields.

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  1. Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 144, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

    V. G. Denisenko, R. I. Egorov & M. S. Soskin

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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Fiziki, Vol. 80, No. 1, 2004, pp. 21–24.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Denisenko, Egorov, Soskin.

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Denisenko, V.G., Egorov, R.I. & Soskin, M.S. Measurement of the morphological forms of polarization singularities and their statistical weights in optical vector fields. Jetp Lett. 80, 17–19 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1800206

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