Arbitrary spatially variant polarization by unitary transformations in a common path interferometer
Autor: | M Á Olvera Santamaría, A Tlapale Aguilar, A S Ostrovsky |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Optics. 24:075604 |
ISSN: | 2040-8986 2040-8978 |
Popis: | We introduce a novel, common path interferometric technique, for generating hybrid spatially variant polarized fields and Poincaré beams. The technique is based on unitary polarization transformations employing a single spatial light modulator in a Sagnac-like common path interferometer. This technique allows generating arbitrary fields as a superposition of orthogonal elliptically polarized vortex basis with opposite handedness. We demonstrate the generation of such fields theoretically and verify it experimentally for azimuthal and spiral polarization. As an example of application, we generated a radially polarized ring-shaped field and characterize it by Stokes polarimetry. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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