Polarization manipulation of radially polarized beams

Ignacio Moreno; Jorge Albero; Jeffrey A. Davis; Don M. Cottrell; Johnathan B. Cushing

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.12.128003

11 December 2012 Polarization manipulation of radially polarized beams

Ignacio Moreno, Jorge Albero, Jeffrey A. Davis, Don M. Cottrell, Johnathan B. Cushing

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 12, 128003 (December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.12.128003

Abstract

We used patterned radial polarizers to easily generate and detect radially polarized beams. We then showed how to spatially manipulate the two-dimensional polarization mapping provided by a radial polarizer using different waveplate systems to obtain new two-dimensional polarization states. One system is particularly useful, since it converts the radial polarized beam into the azimuthally polarized beam. The transformed beams were analyzed using linear, circular, and radial polarizers. The Jones matrix formalism was applied for the theoretical analysis.

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Ignacio Moreno, Jorge Albero, Jeffrey A. Davis, Don M. Cottrell, and Johnathan B. Cushing "Polarization manipulation of radially polarized beams," Optical Engineering 51(12), 128003 (11 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.12.128003

Published: 11 December 2012

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