Images of light patterns captured using the Atom Camera. (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Images of light patterns captured using the Atom Camera.

Caption

Images of light patterns captured using the Atom Camera. (Left) Intensity distribution of a microscopic lattice structure generated by a specialized optical device. (Right) Non-trivial polarization distribution appearing in a tightly focused laser beam. Red and blue regions indicate opposite circular polarization directions as indicated in the figure.

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Takafumi Tomita

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