Abstract
The pioneering work of Tam and Happer1 on the self-induced planar spatial separation of orthogonal circular polarization components in the transmission of an initially linearly polarized light beam through a sodium cell has recently been complemented by observations of the separation of an elliptically polarized beam into multiple polarized cylindrical structures.2,3 The basic nonlinear mechanism is known to be the creation of a long-lived orientation in the sodium ground state by the competing polarization components.
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