Serviços Personalizados
Journal
Artigo
Indicadores
- Citado por SciELO
- Acessos
Links relacionados
- Similares em SciELO
Compartilhar
Revista mexicana de física
versão impressa ISSN 0035-001X
Resumo
TORRES DEL CASTILLO, G.F. e RUBALCAVA GARCIA, I.. The Jones vector as a spinor and its representation on the Poincaré sphere. Rev. mex. fis. [online]. 2011, vol.57, n.5, pp.406-413. ISSN 0035-001X.
It is shown that the two complex Cartesian components of the electric field of a monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave, with a temporal and spatial dependence of the form ei(kz-wt), form a SU(2) spinor that corresponds to a tangent vector to the Poincaré sphere representing the state of polarization and phase of the wave. The geometrical representation on the Poincaré sphere of the effect of some optical filters is reviewed. It is also shown that in the case of a partially polarized beam, the coherency matrix defines two diametrically opposite points of the Poincaré sphere.
Palavras-chave : Jones vector; Poincaré sphere; polarization; spinors.