RT Journal Article
T1 Synthesis and characterization of non-uniformly totally polarized light beams: tutorial
A1 Piquero Sanz, Gemma María
A1 Martínez Herrero, María Rosario
A1 González de Sande, Juan Carlos
A1 Santarsiero, Massimo
AB Polarization of a light beam is traditionally studied under the hypothesis that the state of polarization is uniform across the transverse section of the beam. In such a case, if the paraxial approximation is also assumed, the propagation of the beam reduces to a scalar problem. Over the last few decades, light beams with spatially variant states of polarization have attracted great attention, due mainly to their potential use in applications such as optical trapping, laser machining, nanoscale imaging, polarimetry, etc. In this tutorial, an introductory treatment of non-uniformly totally polarized beams is given. Besides a brief review of so me useful parameters for characterizing the polarization distribution of such beams across transverse planes, from both local and global points of view, several methods for generating them are described. It is expected that this tutorial will serve newcomers as a starting point for further studies on the subject.
PB Optical Society of America
SN 1084-7529
YR 2020
FD 2020-04-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6206
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6206
LA eng
NO ©2020 Optical Society of America.Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad Spanish Government [FIS2016-75147]
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025