%0 Journal Article
%A Piquero Sanz, Gemma María
%A Movilla Serrano, Jesús María
%A Mejías Arias, Pedro Miguel
%A Martínez Herrero, María Rosario
%T Beam quality of partially polarized beams propagating through lenslike birefringent elements
%D 1999
%@ 0740-3232
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58835
%X Changes generated by lenslike birefringent elements on the beam-quality parameter of partially polarized beams are investigated. Analytical expressions for the beam-quality gain at the output of such systems are given in terms of the second-order intensity moments of the field. Explicit conditions to improve and optimize the beam-quality parameter after propagation through these birefringent transmittances are also shown.
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