abstract
- © 2020 OSA - The Optical Society. All rights reserved.We characterize the geometric and dynamic phase introduced by a lossless dielectric multilayer into an elliptically polarized input wave with oblique incidence. The phases are conveniently mapped on the Poincaré sphere as a function of the Stokes vector of the input field. The geometric phase interval of the transmitted wave is determined by the difference of the phases of the overall transmission coefficients for theTEandTMwaves. The same conclusion is obtained for the reflected wave. To exemplify the theory, we show the surface plots of the geometric phase intervals as a function of the.