Controllable transmission of vector beams in dichroic medium*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774286, 11374238, 11534008, 11604258, and 11574247), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M592771), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. xjj2018213).

Li Yun-Ke, Wang Jin-Wen, Yang Xin, Chen Yun, Chen Xi-Yuan, Cao Ming-Tao, Wei Dong, Gao Hong, Li Fu-Li
       

Experimental results, where the probe beam is a (a) radially or (b) azimuthally polarized vector beam while the pump beam has linear polarization. θ is the angle between the optical axis and the horizontal direction, blue arrows represent the polarized direction of the pump beam.