Full Poincare beams obtained by means of uniaxial crystals
The generation of non-uniformly totally polarized beams and the study of their applications is a subject of increasing interest in the last years. A particular class of beams of this kind are the so-called full Poincare beams, which have the property of presenting all possible polarization states ac...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18245 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18245 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 535 Nonuniformly polarized beams Anisotropic crystals Vector beams Propagation Light Depolarizer State Gauss Óptica (Física) 2209.19 Óptica Física |
| Summary: | The generation of non-uniformly totally polarized beams and the study of their applications is a subject of increasing interest in the last years. A particular class of beams of this kind are the so-called full Poincare beams, which have the property of presenting all possible polarization states across their transverse section. Here we present a simple and easy way to obtain a beam endowed with such property. The method is based on the use of an initially linearly polarized beam that propagates along the optic axis of a uniaxial crystal. |
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