Timeline for How do you combine two spatial modes of light into one spatial mode in optics?
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| May 31, 2020 at 16:51 | comment | added | S. McGrew | If the polarizations are not in phase, the two cannot be combined into a single mode. With one polarization axis in phase and the other out of phase, the result will be a partially polarized, partially coherent mode. | |
| May 31, 2020 at 16:32 | comment | added | triclope | Do you know what the mathematical relation between inputs and output is? I'm trying to understand your description, but got stuck with an edge case of the input being a in a superposition of polarization (H, V) and input spatial modes (1, 2) with one polarization in phase and the other not: $ |H\rangle_1 + |H\rangle_2 + i|V\rangle_1 - i|V\rangle_2 $. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 15:57 | history | answered | S. McGrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |