Free-space local nonseparability dynamics of vector modes

Xiao-Bo Hu; Benjamin Perez-Garcia; Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo; Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda; Andrew Forbes; Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán

doi:10.1364/PRJ.416342

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