Abstract

We explore the peculiar interference behaviors of the vector fields in the Young’s two-slit configuration. The interference patterns have a chessboard structure in the middle region and depend on the topological charge and the initial phase of the input vector field. The results have potential applications such as characterizing the topological properties of the arbitrary vector fields.

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