RT Journal Article T1 Global parameters for characterizing the radial and azimuthal polarization content of totally polarized beams A1 Piquero Sanz, Gemma María A1 Martínez Herrero, María Rosario A1 Mejías Arias, Pedro Miguel A1 Ramírez Sánchez, Victoria AB Several global parameters are proposed to characterize the radial and azimuthal polarization content of non-uniformly totally polarized beams. Such figures of merit can be written and measured in terms of two Stokes parameters, and also from the data at the output of either a radial or an azimuthal dichroic polarizer, integrated throughout the beam profile. The measurability of the proposed parameters has also been experimentally checked. PB Elsevier Science BV SN 0030-4018 YR 2008 FD 2008-04-15 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50871 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50871 LA eng NO ©2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This work has been supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain, under project FIS2004-1900, and by the Universidad Complutense-Comunidad de Madrid, project No. 910335 (2007). We thank Dr. Julio Serna for his valuable suggestions. NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid NO Comunidad de Madrid DS Docta Complutense RD 11 abr 2025