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Singular optical manipulation of birefringent elastic media using non singular beams

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It is shown that nonsingular light beams can generate singular birefringent patterns in homogeneous birefringent elastic media. These orientational defects of the optical-axis spatial distribution originate from an optical torque driven by a nonzero longitudinal field component. Singular radial and spin-dependent azimuthal light-induced elastic distortion patterns are described and experimentally observed in a uniform liquid-crystal film in the course of a focused circularly polarized Gaussian beam.
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Etienne Brasselet. Singular optical manipulation of birefringent elastic media using non singular beams. Optics Letters, 2009, 34 (20), pp.3229-3231. ⟨10.1364/OL.34.003229⟩. ⟨hal-00668980⟩

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